Captain Hat

On a solid four day streak so far.

Not gonna do the thing tomorrow either.

Might get around to it Friday but my weekend's booked solid.

That kind of bright finish isn't really my wheelhouse so I apologise if this is all more basic than where you're at already.

Painting a classic goblin! Warhammer Quest Lair of the Orc Lord YouTube video by JewelKnightJess

Really though, I think @voiceofkosh.bsky.social is probably the best person I know for colour theory and @jewelknightjess.com is the oldhammer painter who I think has my favourite take on the style- here's a video of hers with a bright primary paint style that I think works really well:

Oldhammer colours, ooft, those can legitimately be difficult. What I will say (and I suspect this isn't news to you) is that particularly for very bright colours your basecoat can be very important. Bright primary yellow can look much better over a pink base than a white one, for example.

Sorry to hear that. I do have Thoughts on painting large fabric panels in bright colours if you're interested but you're an excellent painter so I don't anticipate you'd *need* my advice particularly.

Oh that's nice! Really smooth blending on the cloak shades, that's superb :)

Eidolon of Mathlann

Eidolon of Mathlann

Eidolon of Mathlann

Eidolon of Mathlann backshots

Eidolon of Mathlann, Aspect of the Sea!

This took me a better part of the week to finish, whoo whee. Happy with results though! #aos

The UK should be at war with this war criminal scum and interning his British apologists.

It's the 19th of November. Now sod off.

Happy international women's day to all women tall or short, thick or thin, cis or trans! #iwd #international #womens #day

I’m not going to make this about a few choice photos of women in the classes. I’m going to use this as my reminder that we need to work harder for equality. Happy women’s day.

#hema #fencing #community #learnswordfighting #londonlongswordacademy

but we convince ourselves that as long as we stick to a set of arbitrary rules we made up we can call ourselves "polite" and nobody's allowed to be angry about it.

I'm trying to point out the way white Britain deceives itself, not to take part in the deceit.

I'm trying to state my position clearly; my grandma was Iraqi and I experienced a lot of the other side of the machine from people I had thought were my friends in the 90s and early 00s, I know it's nasty when they don't think they're talking about anyone in the room

You're probably right. But my point isn't that we're *actually* better, but that we *convince ourselves* that we're better and mark ourselves virtuous by that measure even though there's no real difference.

I hope I'm making some kind of sense? I don't know at this point.

The facade is for us, not for you. The machine doesn't care how it's seen externally, all it wants is to assuage the consciences of its own cogs. It's the absurdity of which we convince ourselves that allows us to continue to commit atrocity.

That's already where I'm at with this? We as white British people fool ourselves; it's not necessary for us to fool anyone else in order to feel OK about keeping the machine running.

We are as bad as anyone else but our machinery is designed to let us pretend to ourselves that we're not.

Yes! I am all for that. That's exactly what I want to do.

That's why I've been thinking about the mechanisms the UK uses to hide its racism, royalism, imperialism and fascism from itself. I want to dismantle it all so that we're left without excuses.

I mean, look, this might be a communication disconnect? The quote marks are intended to indicate sarcasm. "Polite" in the cynical sense of "technically following a particular set of rigid social rules and stopping just short of openly rude while still being actively harmful" if that makes sense.

Yes, see, this is exactly what I mean. It's that specific brand of weaponised incompetence that allows space for Brits to deny that they (we) are being racist while actually being very racist.

"Polite" without ever actually being genuinely polite.

I mean, I personally also think it's horrifying and atrocious.

That's kind of the point. I'm saying this is all insidious and evil, not that it's good actually. That would be incredibly fucked up.

Yes, that's my point. We're much better at pretending to ourselves that we're good people than we are at actually being good people.

Yes! That's more or less what I was trying to say; our system is set up to be racist while convincing us that we aren't, because at least most of us are "polite" about it.

My intent wasn't to try and pretend we're not racist as a nation but to talk about the way in which we're fundamentally two-faced and set up our institutions to allow that to be the case while pretending to be virtuous.

I don't mean to claim British people aren't racist, but e.g. in WW2 they'd call their dog the N-word and still get very angry at white Americans trying to keep Black soldiers out of the pub.

It's less about prejudice and more about politeness. I don't know if there's a word for that.

Weird mix of different slang terms but it's not far off lol.

It's a distinction that doesn't actually mean anything except for allowing British people to feel superior, is my point.

Not what I said or what I meant. A lot of British people are very racist but most of them will show it by denying CVs with "ethnic" names interviews and vilifying nebuously-defined "immigration" instead of shouting epithets in the street.

Not all, and there are more that will these days, but most.

I could probably sum it up better by saying British racism is more likely to happen behind closed doors or in shrouded language than in direct violence (which is not to say the violence part never happens).

Sorry, that was a miscommunication on my part, I don't know the terminology. British people think Americans are more racist because Americans are more direct about it; British people are mostly less likely to be in your face about their racism. It makes no real difference but Brits think it does.

(although of course it is helped on by the fact that a lot of people do hold very racist views, and a lot of them are the people in paramount control of the machine)