Kitbashcat
@kitbashcat
She/Her. Friendly neighborhood hobbyist. 🏳️⚧️ Trans power, trans pride! 🏳️⚧️
Grombrindal - the White Dwarf - seen here in the guise of a captain of the Ironbreakers, as he appeared at the battle of Drakescale Pass, where forces of the Khazâd held for a day and a night against vast hordes of Orcs and their trollish allies. #nerdlings
Weird question, but does anybody with experience of Victrix miniatures know whether their scale is internally consistent across their ranges? That is to say - are their medieval knights and footmen the same scale as their Vikings and Saxons? One would expect so, but I'm not gonna assume! #nerdlings
I had my final appointment at the GIC today. Got the hormones, had the laser, done the voice coaching, and I'm a poor candidate (read: too fat) for anything more invasive. Weirdly emotional. For years this was the point I was striving for, and now... into the sunset, I guess?
But you see, I do not want to go home and log onto my work emails, I want to enter this den I found, eating the treats I have from the bakery down the road, and hiss at passers by. I shall make friends with squirrels and birds and the nicer kind of bug, oh yes, and smell of soil and leaves.
I think this will do! (Not pictured, the four or five alternative schemes I tried, and the chaps to carry these scutii into battle, currently awaiting basing) #nerdlings
I made it! Somewhat less put together than when I started, but it's over. I can go crawl into a heap and play toy soldiers and forget it exists for the weekend.
Big important day of meetings today. Like, this is the reason I have a job important. Happens twice a year and I can't fuck this up. I can't be stressed, don't be silly, does this look stressed to you?
Stupid Sexy Krakens, you say? (Though I wish I could freehand as well as Eve!!!) #Nerdlings
It's got even less claim to legitimate ancient roots than Mari, but can I interest you in the Dark Morris?
I mean, it would be such a shame to let all this insane work go to waste...
A wargame that looked like this would be pretty cool. Even better if they're fighting undead bog bodies or ghosts in the form of the Mari Lwyd or a rival gang dressed as Border Morris Dancers... I'll make that happen one day. I'll finish it. Maybe I'll make that my winter project. #nerdlings
I promise regular programming will resume shortly! (Also it is wild that as somebody with a deep love of the fells, the woods, and the water that I've never played any kind of Wood Elves/Sylvaneth/Nature Spirits etc. and my go-to's are often industrial evils).
Thankfully, I survived my meeting with a murderer. We continued down the path and took a brief off-trail to keep an eye and he overtook like five minutes later, presumably giving up after being turned down by the other half dozen or so potential murd-ees that passed after us.
The weirdest thing just happened. This phone box started ringing out of nowhere. I picked it up, and this voice says that somebody called Oberon has to die then hung up! Weird. Anyway, there's these morris dancer looking guys heading my way, they seem cheerful? #Atomfall #Lakedistrict
"Cat, why don't you use Instagram any more?" Sigh. #TransWomanJustTryingToExistOnTheInternet
You can always see the genuine happiness shining though, even in early, early transition. I feel like a lot of my pre-transition photos have an artificiality about them. A mask of "I think this is what happy looks like" which pales in comparison to being genuinely happy.
This got sent around the staff newsletter this week. What a shit, bleak existence this is that is being forced on us. And they wonder why I work at home so much...
Friends, may I pick your brains? I'm looking at fantasy gaming after many years of being away. There seem to be a whole variety to pick from, all offering different playstyles and vibes. If I tell you a bit about me and what I play currently, could you advise some I might enjoy? (Thread) #nerdlings
YESSS! GET IN! VENT YOUR FURY, SKY GODS!!! And so it was that the heat drove Cat into becoming some sort of lightning cultist...
Thus you find me about to get into a bath of cold water to read and be inspired as my core temperature drops to something reasonable...
In Smog, my WIP wargame setting, ancient pagan gods vent their wrath on an industrial Victorian city by filling it with a freezing damp mist that wakes the dead and calls forth spirits. Now I'm not saying that I welcome our new cold swamp creature overlords, but... #nerdlings