selphinrose:

medievalpoc:

Sophie Okonedo in The Hollow Crown

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Apparently I should be checking out this miniseries adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays, immediate-style. 

@bikiniarmorbattledamage

I haven’t sent stuff like this your way recently but OHGOSH THE ARMOR AND STYLE AND SHE’S ACTUALLY GOT LINES AND WRINKLES I NEED THIS EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE.

I am particularly loving this photoset as great demonstration of how a cuirass curves not just to deflect hits but also to be roomy enough for the wearer to flex and bend inside of it.

Outstanding.

– wincenworks

Guild wars 2 meets BABD BINGO!

aster-the-ace:

I love Guild Wars. I just bought heart of Thorns and I am greatly enjoying it. While the game has many great examples of female armor, sometimes not so much. This is focusing on the heavy armor class, because Light Armor is too easy of a target

The Vigil armor. The Vigil is a faction dedicated to eradicating the Dragons that are destroying the world through uniting the races of Tyria. If you join them, like the other factions on this list, you can get their special armor…which is not so great for ladies, because apparently the Vigil, which is not only lead by a woman but a Charr, a race “Forged in the crucible of battle”, only supplies boob window armor. 

Next, the heavy armor for the Order of Whsipers. The Order of Whispers is an ancient secret society that has been influencing the leaders of Tyria for centuries. And they make bad armor for their agents. While a bit of extra work, this armor set could be nice but, no, boob window. This seems to be intentional, as this is the concept art for this hot mess.

Thanks, Anet, and Hello Esher Girls.

Finally, the Durmand priory. A faction dedicated to scouring ancient relics and lore for ideas on how to fight the Dragons, with an oddly low scoring armor. Weird. 

Anyway, if anyone asks why I always play Charr, a catlike beast race with little to no sexual differences, this is what i‘m going to show them 

I get the feeling that someone at Guild Wars decided that they wanted them to be “sexy” but didn’t want them to look conventionally “sexy” so they decided to do things like put windows on the side of the belly and above cleavage.

Presumably they were hoping the shift would distract people from the obvious gaps in the armor and exposed vital areas.

– wincenworks

Guild wars 2 meets BABD BINGO!

aster-the-ace:

I love Guild Wars. I just bought heart of Thorns and I am greatly enjoying it. While the game has many great examples of female armor, sometimes not so much. This is focusing on the heavy armor class, because Light Armor is too easy of a target

The Vigil armor. The Vigil is a faction dedicated to eradicating the Dragons that are destroying the world through uniting the races of Tyria. If you join them, like the other factions on this list, you can get their special armor…which is not so great for ladies, because apparently the Vigil, which is not only lead by a woman but a Charr, a race “Forged in the crucible of battle”, only supplies boob window armor. 

Next, the heavy armor for the Order of Whsipers. The Order of Whispers is an ancient secret society that has been influencing the leaders of Tyria for centuries. And they make bad armor for their agents. While a bit of extra work, this armor set could be nice but, no, boob window. This seems to be intentional, as this is the concept art for this hot mess.

Thanks, Anet, and Hello Esher Girls.

Finally, the Durmand priory. A faction dedicated to scouring ancient relics and lore for ideas on how to fight the Dragons, with an oddly low scoring armor. Weird. 

Anyway, if anyone asks why I always play Charr, a catlike beast race with little to no sexual differences, this is what i‘m going to show them 

I get the feeling that someone at Guild Wars decided that they wanted them to be “sexy” but didn’t want them to look conventionally “sexy” so they decided to do things like put windows on the side of the belly and above cleavage.

Presumably they were hoping the shift would distract people from the obvious gaps in the armor and exposed vital areas.

– wincenworks

0rendi:

taunting-carnifex:

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[ The important difference between Ovrwatch and Battleborn. ]

 This so perfectly encapsulates approaches to character roster in both games!

Character creation assignment: Add a mecha pilot to the cast of your multi-player FPS. Who will they be?
Blizzard: How about… a young, thin, conventionally attractive girl? Something we totally don’t have a surplus of in the game
Gearbox: Hm… A cute and BADASS engineer penguin!

Truly, Overwatch are the masters of creativity and diversity!

~Ozzie

more on Overwatch | more on Battleborn

shattered-earth:

Finished my Saizo sketch! I know he’s not the most popular FE:if character but.. he’s.. my husband so.. too bad >_>

Will be a print for Fanime, AX, Otakon etc. Hope there are other saizo fans out there TuT

See, why isn’t Fire Emblem leading with this kind of imagery?  Letting men know the game is has empowered male figures like Saizo in it?

Thank goodness for fans who understand the true appeal of the games.

– wincenworks