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🩸🪽🪚Gabes, buddy, pal, friend, amigo, what you need ELBOW SAWS for?

Gabriel Seth, Chapter Master and Biggest A-hole of The Flesh Tearers, Chainsworld loving sons of Sanguinius, The " Guardian of Rage " and a dozen Other bloody titles.

I Drew his face to be a mix of Angron's and Sanguinius, Just Because.

For the pose I used his official mini as lose reference, but I had to change A LOT of Little things, adding more Gold and spiked and changing stuff around, Because Bling, but I Think It keeps The original vibe.

GIVE MORE CHAPTER MASTERS UNIQUE MODELS, GW, WHERE TYBEROS?

ALSO his evicerator's name IS BLOOD REAVER—

Also² I gave him more Scars, Because he be Flesh Tearing, some of them from Inquisitor Nerissa over here, Just Because SOMEONE told me to, The same SOMEONE who commented that Gabriel should be muzzled, and After seeing what this fucker says, yeah Maybe he should.

"Nerissa laughed. ‘And you have come to kill me?’

‘Yes.’

‘You are a fool, Flesh Tearer. If you board this vessel, I will force you to butcher everyone on board. Your actions will sign the death warrant of your Chapter.’—‘I do not need to board, to Kill you—' You get The picture.

This delightful overstressed ball of short fuses appears in Trial By Blood, Gabriel Seth The Flesh Tearer, Know Thy Self, Blood on the Machine, The Assassination of Gabriel Seth, The Devastation of Baal, Red Tide, Black Fury, and I know that he SOMEOHOW shows up on a Ragnar Blackmane book????

Wait, there's more. He is in From The Blood, Beneath The Flesh, Torture's Thrist, Death's Shepherd, Immortalis, that One Astorath The Grim book, Redeemer of The Lost...

THAT'S MORE BOOKS THAN FERRUS MANUS THE FUCKING PRIMARCH HAS—

OH and These ARE aaaaa 2625x2500 digital drawings done on Ibis Paint! ALSO here is the rendering, I DIDN'T EVEN WANTED TO RENDER THIS BASTARD BUT IT OVERCAME ME

Like all these jokes about space marines, chaosites and "there's only war" narrative you hear from outside the fandom made you think that warhammer is about endless, mindless battles and talks about honor only when in reality it's way more deep than that. It has place for small stories about traumas and healing, for a little laugh and even peace, and, of course, for love and hope. Sometimes it really does make me cry real tears, and this is not what I expected from "peak male fantasy" (quoting the internet here).

The best way I have to answer questions like this is to go through the citations in lexicanum (which at least has citations!) and check the publication date on each one. And hope the first source cited is actually the first source!

I'm not the fun police.

I've been a 40k fan for nearly a decade. It's my hyperfixation. I have a lot of opinions about it. I personally prefer to keep my own fanon content as canon compliant as I can because I personally am just like that (autism). However I know James Workslop's lawyers would sic the Pinkertons on my ass for some of the stuff I write too. I have oc x canon ships. I even have an oc primarch and a ton of oc daemons who don't really line up with established Chaos lore. I bend the shit out of the lore sometimes, even break it in places. I also wrote some very much not canon compliant fic when I was a baby 40k fan in the late 2010s and I'm not mad at past me for doing it. That's basically a fandom rite of passage.

There's stuff I think is dumb in 40k fanon but gods damnit my shit is dumb as hell too. I gave Angron a mortal boyfriend, I have no room to talk. If you find joy in something I don't care for I'M HAPPY FOR YOU! I don't hate people who like things I don't like, in fact I'm friends with and respect a lot of them. I want people to find joy in Warhammer as much as I do even if I don't care for the way they do it. I may rag on ships I hate but it's never been about the people who ship them. My opinions are my dumb opinions.

My problem is when people are confidently wrong about lore and don't bother to double check things, or don't make any effort to distinguish fanon and canon. This isn't about 40k tumblr, it's about everyone (looking at you youtube lore shorts with no research behind them). It doesn't do anything to help newer fans. I ran a 40k rp server on discord for five years and the amount of people who thought memes from /tg/ were canon made me really sad. I also wanted canonically gay Yarrick to be real soooo bad but alas, just /tg/ again. He's gay in my heart though.

As for people yelling at others to read a book, I don't think that's helpful. GW sucks shit at making their books accessible so it's a bit gatekeepy, especially since not everyone has time to read or knows other ways to access the material. If you're a newer fan who wants to read a 40k book but can't find it, please feel free to reach out to me and I will help you find a way to read it if I can. If you hear some lore on reddit or here or in a youtube short or whatever and aren't sure about it, check the Lexicanum wiki. It's not perfect, but it's the most reliable Warhammer wiki (the fandom one is ass don't bother with it) and has useful citations that show you what books things come from.

I definitely reblogged some shit here without fully grasping all of the context of what was going on, and I apologize for any hurt I may have caused my mutuals. I love you guys and the last thing I want is for you to think I have a problem with you or that any of my past old man rants were somehow about you. If I did have a problem with you then we wouldn't be mutuals! You guys mean a lot to me even if I'm just someone who is on your dash sometimes. Never stop doing what you do.

Also, we have police, government and military TV shows, books and video games, etc. nowadays. Do you think there are Astartes/Primarch TV shows, books and games in the Imperium? A sitcom about marines from different legions stuck on a foreign world together? An enemies to lovers yaoi manga about a Salamander and a Night Lord? Fanart of someone’s favorite or least favorite primarch dressed like a cat maid?