(Video) Mark's Manifesto 1 - Aspiration and Identification
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Today we talk about a pattern emerging in modern media, specifically in Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar. It’s something people often describe, clumsily, as the ‘uglification’ of female characters—but I think that word misses the real issue. What’s actually happening is a shift in design philosophy: away from aspirational, exaggerated fantasy and toward relatability and identification. Warhammer was built on myth, excess, and iconography, where everyone was larger than life. As the setting modernizes and broadens its audience, female characters are often the first place that idealization gets stripped away—not out of malice, but out of corporate caution. And that shift changes what power, beauty, and fantasy are allowed to look like in the grimdark future.
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello and welcome back to Lorhammer. I'm your host Mark and today we got the start of a fun little series of episodes, the Mark's Manifestos. |
| 0:35.6 | You can figure out what these are going to be about. |
| 0:41.1 | Yeah, I just have some like 40K thoughts that maybe don't fit into like the regular lore topics that we have. |
| 0:47.3 | Like there may be more meta thoughts or like maybe their hobby thoughts. |
| 0:51.8 | Maybe they're marketing like today's episode is going to be a little bit |
| 0:54.6 | about that uh but yeah they're just kind of like 15 minutes thoughts that don't fit anywhere in a |
| 0:59.5 | main episode but i got to get them out of me otherwise they're going to rattle around in my head |
| 1:02.8 | all day so uh yeah these are kind of my manifesto's about 40k uh hello and welcome to lorehammer |
| 1:08.8 | before we get into them let Let's just do some quick |
| 1:11.2 | housekeeping. Join the Discord. There's links in the description below. Come join the Patreon. |
| 1:15.5 | If you like listening to me Ramble, me and my homies ramble about 40K, yeah, come join the show |
| 1:21.3 | or join the Patreon. I normally don't do this part of the show. I let other people do my |
| 1:26.3 | dirty bidding. But yeah, come also join the live stream. These manifestos are live streamed if you can want to come watch them. They're only 15 minutes, so it might be hard to kind of catch them. We'll see what happens. There's a lot of people that are stalking me, it seems like. So we'll see what happens. But there will be access to uh call ins at the end if |
| 1:45.4 | people are interested in that um so yeah the manifestos i got basically 10 ideas that uh |
| 1:53.5 | i'm going to present to you in kind of like a monologueish form um i definitely thought it out a lot more than me just rambling. I've done |
| 2:03.9 | episodes like that. Like, you know, a lot of these ideas probably you've heard me ramble on |
| 2:09.1 | in a main episode, but I, you know, I wasn't able to flesh it out fully or like really put |
| 2:13.9 | thoughts to paper because then you can really kind of solidify and do stuff like that. So this is like more more solidified, I suppose. |
| 2:21.0 | But yeah, today's episode is about inspiration and identification. |
| 2:28.9 | So we'll see what this is all about. |
| 2:32.2 | Before anyone lashes out at me, though, in the comment section. Let me just say, this is just the theory I've been working on. |
| 2:38.0 | I've heard other people have similar thoughts too, but I'm just some guy that likes to play with minis alone on my island, so don't take this too seriously. |
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