I think the part of the 40k fandom who really earnestly want to prove Astartes do/can in fact fuck are kinda missing the point.

Like Astartes are at their core deeply tragic creatures. They're people who've been turned into tools to serve the interests of fascist imperialism and, in the process, have had their humanity stripped away because they're purely utilitarian by design.

The scope of their entire existence has been narrowed down to a single point. They're more advanced than baseline humans in a physiological sense--stronger, faster, larger, better reflexes, etc--but beyond that, they're actually more limited.

There's a point in one of the Night Lord books where Octavia observes that, for all of the Astartes' advanced capabilities, they're really quite developmentally stunted. Like, huge powerhouses with unnaturally long lifespans, but the hyper-simplistic emotional depth and worldview of a 12 year old.

Which adds up. The Astartes love to sneeringly dismiss things like sexuality, intimacy and romantic love as nothing but the base, inferior drives of mortals, but once you strip back the superiority complex, it just sounds like a tween boy who can't wrap their head around why anyone would want to kiss a girl.

And, again, it's all by design; the Imperium doesn't want them developing attachments outside of a basic sense of brotherhood and filial love for their Primarch because that distracts them from their sole intended purpose. You don't want your hammer vanishing on a fuck fueled vacation to Bali with your handsaw when you're trying to build a shed. It's all a means of control.

And I get finding one of them hot and having horny headcanon, go fuckin nuts.

But whenever I see a reddit post that's like "B-BUT THE SPACE WOLVES FUCK! HORNY ASTARTES ARE CANON--!", it's like...I dunno, isn't it more compelling if they can't? That they've been robbed of simple human joys in order to better serve the interests of an uncaring theocratic fascist state? And they can't even grasp what's been taken from them?

Maybe that's just me.

Oops, all Alpharius!

(Insert that one cereal box)

🩸🪽⚜️Guts and Blood WARNING, but The last one for a while.

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I have a bunch of ugly aaaaaaa half made half realised Aellus and Anna sketches I couldn't fit on theyr other posts. . . So Imma drop them here lol and start 2026 with a clean slate.

This is a good reminder that Blood Angels aren't your " teehee cute vampires Imma peck your neck and your gonna go home fine teehee cute teehee " Nah, They Eat people, like, whole, Many people, Angels Vermillion be eating Whole families before and After battles. If Anna wasn't a Perpetual, She Would be Dead, 100%, and It isn't Theyr fault either.

They are Just cursed like that. The Red Thrist can Only be """"taimed""""" By YEARS of meditation, hard work, and ritual blood drinking, that Also extends Theyr lives and theyr pain. The Black Rage Also is pushed back some decades at least.

Also yeah no they are just friends, Astartes can't fall in love, don't You known???? Theyr brains of something— It aIn'T lOrE AcCurAte coughs coughs

Pff. Happy New Year~

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These are 1875x2500 digital drawings and sketches and Linearts and stuff—

ALT

the tbhpriest

gagnus the red

whoremouth lupercal

alpharius hoe-megon

cervix corax

slutguinius

fulgrim

Obsessed with Astartes touching helmets as a sign of affection

Seeing your battle brother after a long time? *Bonk*

You’re both heading into a battle and you’re not sure if you’ll both return? *Thunk*

Celebrating a victory and your buddy finally joined the party? *Clang*

Your closest friend wounded in the apothecary? *Bop*

i’ll say one nice thing about the imperium. the industrial music scene on forge worlds probably goes crazy