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solradguy · 5 months ago

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I thought the early 2000s "strong yet naked/mostly naked woman kept in her place by stronger, bigger, beast/monster or gang of racist caricatures" trope* was known by basically everyone but I mentioned it as a criticism of this older art book I'd flipped through recently to a friend and it turns out it isn't lol Maybe I've just read too many Heavy Metal issues... It used to be HORRIBLY inescapable in any sort of mature art scene back in the day lmao

*This trope is different from the pre-2000s one because the women usually look like they COULD fight back for at least a little bit whereas the previous trope had them be completely helpless damsels in distress

#textpost #And the damn apes. Why were there so many APES in art back then #I am so TIRED OF APES #'look at my drawing isn't it so quirky and funny. i have given the sassy stylized gorilla a naked human woman and sunglasses har har'#Ngl when the NFT thing started and I saw the ape one taking off it was instantly enemy number one because I am TIRED OF APES!!!#Not that every fictional or stylized ape is bad but there is a particular way they can be drawn where it makes me roll my eyes #Those NFTs are a prime example. They were absolutely drawing on the apes I loathe when designing those #I suppose these apes are parallel to that category of 'unintelligent and crude unkept representation of the reader/artist that still-#-hooks up with the smokin hot babe with the hourglass figure' trope #Which I also loathe #Probably this doesn't make any sense lol #I don't know how many of my followers on here shovel as much of this shit into their eyeballs as I do #Unfortunately sometimes the periodicals with such tropes that I so despise also occasionally have little gems between that make up for it #Wading through the Kevin Eastman+Simon Bisley Heavy Metal pissfart era for a scrap of Moebius or something avant garde #If I wasn't working on 1000 different things I would write reviews of Heavy Metal issues from my bookshelf lol #Some of these issues are ripe vomit. I could really tear into them #Insane that they went from cutting edge of adult SFF sequential art to whatever the fuck was going on in the FAKK 2 era #Ok I need to go get ready for bed lol enjoy whatever this post turned out to be

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