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Guardian: a Fantasy Coloring Book of Women in Armor

Guardian: a Fantasy Coloring Book of Women in Armor

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Anonymous submitted:

Hi 🙂 This is the first time, I submit something, so I hope, I don’t mess up.

A friend linked this to me because she thought I might like it, and she was absolutely correct. And since I think it looks pretty awesome and like it might fit the purview of your blog, I’m submitting this to you.

Beautiful artwork, fantasy settings, female characters in reasonable armor and coloring books? That’s an oddly specific cross-section of my interests I could only hope to find on a crowdfunding platform 🙂 

The book is basically ready to go, so the funding, barring stretch goals, goes into printing and shipping out a completed product. If you love ladies in good armor, please consider supporting this project on Kickstarter.

Thank you for submitting, Anon!

~Ozzie

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On some redesigned female armor I see plackart designed as V-shaped (for example gingerhaze’s purple-white-pink platemail, recently featured at BABD). It looks better aesthetically but on historical armor I saw plackart designed as upside-down V-shaped (for example look at wikipedia article about plackart). I wonder if straight V-shaped plackart which I see a lot in fictional armor has same functionality as a historical prototype.

Frankly, I have no idea about significance of V-shape in regards of realistic plate armor (all I learned about armor design was through running this blog). Seems like your question is more suited for an armorer, like Ryan ‘Jabberwock’ who wrote this article.

What’s significant in the post you’re referring to is this bit gingerhaze wrote (some parts bolded for emphasis):

Would this actually work in real life as real armor? Probably not? But I’m not sure that’s the most important thing to focus on, unless you’re making a gritty, realistic, historically-accurate work. For fantasy? COOLNESS is what counts. I’m all for seeing non-sexualized, diverse ladytypes with functional armor, as long as the coolness factor doesn’t get lost!

In fiction, believability based on realism is much more important than sticking to straight-up realism. As simonjadis says in a reply I reblogged some time ago:

A naturalistic story tells a story that is completely plausible in our world. No wizards, no dragons, no secret vampires, no alien invasions. Telling a realistic story is telling a story that is logical and consistent and makes sense (even if the setting is in a fictional world or in a reality very different from our own).

And that’s one of the basic things BABD aims for: promoting female warriors who dress in believable and protective manner, not necessarily realistic/naturalistic.

We criticize bikini armors, boobplates etc. not specifically because they’re historically inaccurate (which they are, but so are dragons and orcs). We criticize them because they’re inconsistent with how most fictional settings work.

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To the Anon who sent me an ask today

Your message was ignorant and cissexist through and through, so don’t expect me to publish it.

If you want me to answer you, I would do this privately IF YOU DID NOT USE ANONYMOUS FEATURE.

Also, I think I explained my problem with the noun ‘female’ (and/or male) as well as I could here, including the article’s comment section. If you read all of those and still don’t get it, we have nothing to discuss together, dear Anon.

This blog is a feminist-friendly space, but we’re not here to discuss sexist vocabulary, so I hope this is the last post not regarding female warrior outfits.

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Can we just take a second to talk about how great (most) of the armor in skyrim is? It kinda sucks that most of the armor mods in the steam workshop for female characters are really sexualized, though.

Sorry I didn’t answer earlier! Got really busy lately and tended to glance over BABD inbox without writing back :(.

Truth is, I never played Skyrim, so I really can’t comment on outfits in the game, be it for female or male characters.
But definitely agreed on mods, as this post exemplifies.

Readers, any opinions on female armors in Skyrim?