It's Manly Monday!
Recommend anything cool you've seen lately! Games, mods, music, even your own projects!
Today's shoutout is for madsfive, a long-time Doom cosplayer who just dropped this Frieren the Slayer crossover!
When I was a newly saved Christian teen in the 90s, I thought it would be great if we had Christian alternatives in genre fiction.
When I walked into Christian book stores and went to the book section, you know what I found?
Nothing but bonnet fiction. Amish romance.
Oh sure we had left behind and Frank Peretti. Frank cranked out two bangers about spiritual warfare before decided he wanted to be Temu Christian Stephen King (because we don’t have enough of those).
But never any fantasy.
Never any sci-fi.
Never any comic books.
And it has stayed this way for decades to my immense disappointment.
@John_Cyrano I'm sure they thought it was a clever April Fools joke but it's too real to be amusing. It's another twist of the dagger already plunged in our bellies.
@HariSel57511397 But sire, did you not know that piety is best found in scrabbling in the dirt like a beast? Surely mankind is not intended to stand upright with nobility!
They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear.
~The Emperor of Mankind, on the Creation of the Space Marines
That’s because you don’t understand how men think.
We want to see what is REAL.
This is intimate to us. You’re just being yourself, knitting and smiling. Not for a camera; it’s just a simple and happy moment.
Men treasure that far more than glamor photos.