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alexheberling:

[Image: An illustration of a female warrior in leather armor in a tavern, backlight by a fireplace.  There are streaks of soot on her face, and she holds a hammer in one hand while brandishing a knife at the viewer.]

womenfighters:

“You wanna come into MY forge and get all up in MY face?”

by Jason Chan for Bioware.

I haven’t played Dragon Age. I’m sure it’s awesome, I just suck at roleplaying games that aren’t of the shaking-a-handful-of-dice variety.

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alexheberling:

[Image: A woman with old-timey leather and metal boxing gloves resting on a stool with a bucket on the floor next to her, which looks like it was used to mop up her bloody nose. ]

womenfighters:

Here’s an old-timey fantasticalish boxing champ by Richard Lyons.

Fully owning up to being outside the purview of “reasonable armor” but I find it a compelling and powerful portrait.