#for male gaze yes yes

[welcometoteyvat]

someone needs to put ayaka into a shojo detective manga

doesn't her expression just scream protag energy

[brainrotcharacters]

As far as I care, he's only the worst Wolverine because he's not supposed to end up happy and at home at the end of the story

[keithle]

that meme about red dead redemption 2 where it's like "how women dress arthur vs how men dress arthur" is a good example of the female and male gaze i think

[majorpepperidge]

Obviously not a 1:1 of the Marvel Rivals design but inspired by it, and will...prrrrobably just draw Groot like this from now on, with tweaks here and there.

[liquidstar]

crazy take: aside from actual lesbian romance stories, obviously, nothing passes the bechdel test better than moe "cute girls doing cute things" anime. its always just a group of girls, few to no named male characters, boys and dating are hardly ever brought up beyond the abstract, if at all. like we're focusing on the girls hanging out rn, we dont need to worry abt that shit. mugi just ate mio's strawberry.

[icanseethefuture333]

I've realized I've grown when I realized how corny these whole high value, femme fatale, and hyper femininity blogs/influencers be sounding

[eissaphir]

I've been re-watching Repo a lot and wonder. Is the extreme oversexualisation of women (with Shilo and Mag being an exception (mostly)) due to Zdunich being involved or because it's another aspect of the dystopia in the movie?

I really want to believe it's the latter but, even if that's true, I feel like it isn't made out to be sth negative (iirc the GENterns aren't exactly opposed to any of it) and it's still pretty off-putting to watch for me. I don't want to shame women who are sexual at all, but the amount in the movie just feels excessive

[kindheartedgummybears]

you wanna know what??

I am

TIRED

of overmasculinized werewolves!!!!

I WANNA SEE A

WEREWOLF

WALKING AROUND IN A CVNTY LITTLE OUTFIT!!! WALKING THE STREETS!!!! DISEMBOWELING CREATURES!!!!

I WANNA SEE WEREWOLVES COVERED IN BLOOD AND GORE WHILE WEARING A SHORT SKIRT AND CROPTOP WITH HELLO KITTY ON IT!!!!

I WANNA SEE A WEREWOLF WALKING AROUND IN COTTAGE AND FAIRY AND PRINCESS CORE OUTFITS!!!!!! WITH A DEAD MANGLED RABBIT IN ITS MOUTH!!!!

AND MAKE THE WEREWOLF

D I S G U S T I N G ! ! !

[threewaysdivided]

Feyli's Fancy Florals

More Dan Jones & Dragons? More Dan Jones & Dragons.

Bringing the number up to four with Feyli, the Flower Crown's born-again Dhampir Druid and sole wielder of feminine wiles (played by the talented NicholeGoodnight), all dolled up for a night of lying her butt off, stealing from rich people and smuggling small woodland creatures into upper-class venues.

More Flower Crowns Gala Outfits: Morenthal | Gelnek | Hobson

Design talk and also some bonus art under the cut:

Gotta say, Feyli's outfit was definitely the most tricky out of the set so far. Nichole gave quite a specific description of the details in Feyli's dress (a blood-red gown with black roses around the top, black rose-vines trailing down the body and a dark lace cape) so a lot of it was figuring out how to translate those elements in a way that felt nice and balanced, then adding some complementary embellishments for fun. Each Flower Crown has been pushing me to learn more program tricks and Feyli certainly gave me some fun new challenges to figure out.

For the dress itself, I ended up going with an off-the-shoulder mermaid-skirt gown in attempt to find something that would look nice on Feyli's body-shape and show off the roses without utterly destroying the line mileage if I wanted to draw her in it again later. (Still ended up doing the skirt-embriodery by hand so task failed successfully).

Accessory-wise I thought it would be fun to crank the "roses" theme up to 11, since Feyli really leaned into that with her alias and cover stories, so I threw in some rose-embroidery finishing to the edges of her lace cape (shout out to ClipStudio users rainbowgrimart and 얀얀씨 for their ornate lace and jewellery brushes, which were an absolute lifesaver for the detailing) and also traded up her usual hair-wildflowers to match.

Whether Feyli canonically wore her antlers to the ball is a mystery, but since she can change those now and Nichole did mention her keeping the hair-flowers I thought it would be neat to give her a smaller but more formal set of sparkly silvered deer-horns to fit the dress-code. I also had some fun playing around with her hair and make-up since it was a black tie nobles event and I figured Lady Infiltration might go the extra mile to style herself for the evening. She's the only party member with long hair, I had to.

The jewellery was mostly just goofing. I really wanted to give her a version of Tante Padva's "slit throat" ruby choker necklace from Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus since I felt like Feyli's backstory and Nichole's description of the dress would vibe with that aesthetic. For the rest, I figured silver would be a cute way to have her be matchy with Coil and contrasting to fellow-infiltrator Morenthal. Plus I thought it would be funny to give her a bunch of rings and loop-bangles since she's such an incorrigible fantasy-gachapon girlie.

Once I realised that Feyli had somehow managed to bring a bag with her rescue-rat companion, Soli, and recently-acquired copper dragonscale lizard through the cloak-room weapons check, I knew I had to find a way of including them as well. They're hard to see in the main drawing but I had so much fun with them that I decided to do a bonus sketch:

(Also feat. Pocket, the Party's new intrusive thoughts generator fairy friend.)

Double-bonus detail crop because I quite like how Feyli's expression-work and hair turned out:

[sillyfriendssharingablog]

as promised

ladies and gentlemen may I introduce you toooooooooo

Queen El-Sayyd!!!

Liquid and Tiger's child <3

I made her with the intention for her to serve cvnt

no she's not necessarily canon to the fic. I just invented her because I love the concept of giving my skrunklies children

Teen and Adult designs (my favs):

younger designs:

full name: Queen Quiet Vogue El Sayyd (or Sears-El Sayyd in my slice of life au)

Date of birth: 09/26/2005

Nationality/ethnicity: American-British/Kurdish

Height: in her adult years she heights around 2m (or 6''5)

Personality: mean, petty, charismatic, emotionally-driven, aphathetic, loud, irresponsible, self-centred, easily jealous (literally just her dad but worse)

Voice Claim: Teen/Adult: Panty from "Panty and Stocking" (VA: Jamie Marchi) Kid: Verruca Salt from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" (2005)

Face claim: Teen/Adult: Lady Gaga

[thealfalfamale]

I cannot stop thinking about how rampant it was across too many different fandoms to see m/m ships as "A is supposed to this Gold Star Straight Guy™ serial-dater and B is his 'I'm not GAY, blank, I just like you.'" Just, the blatant bisexual/comphet erasure in favor of playing into the fantasy of a character being ~The One~ (yes i know being 'blanksexual' was just a fanon joke but still wthhhhh)

that was everything a kid new to fandom knew only twenty or fifteen years ago. it seems so surreal now.

[danmeiljie]

起床! Qichuang! Get out of bed!

Episode 16

[moonlightfoxes]

sumire is a good character on paper and if i wrote her in fanfiction i think i could become a Liker of her but as it stands for literal years since royal came out ive always hated her because of how obvious it is that she exists in the video game persona 5 royal to reach a heterosexuality quota.

its not her fault shes written specifically and explicitly to appeal to the male gaze while also trying to criticize the sexism women have to endure in trying to appeal to the male gaze (really have your cake and eat it too moment) but because her writing is so bland because the game isn't confident in her character yet really wants you to like her i dont like her.

not because i dont like her actual character but because i dont like how the game wants this literal 15 year old to appeal to the male audience so fucking bad, its gross.

[wild-wombytch]

Dying. I've been telling a moid about how hyped I was about Love Lies Bleeding and sharing that shooting of Kristen Stewart and some Katy O'Brian gifs and he immediately started to rate them and telling me Katy is hotter than Kristen and all u-u

That's one message away from denying men inherently don't see women as humans and extensions of them

I really need to purge my social circles from scrotes.

[loftwinglullaby]

wow thank you so much

[zahri-melitor]

Part of me still can’t believe that DC has now put out multiple annual Pride books.

Like in the 90s the content we got was things like Dini drawing Harley/Ivy as fanservice (for himself) and like…Bea and Tora being besties in a comic together.

Then it was the early 2000s and still most of what we got was artist fanservice and very deep friendships and a bunch of referential jokes.

And by 2011 we COULD have lesbians (hello Kate Kane, Maggie Sawyer, Renée Montoya, etc) but you know, they’re not allowed to be happy. Like yay, open non-cishets on page (given this is also the era of Alysia Yeoh) but also editorial is only allowing this under strict conditions.

And now it’s the 2020s and writers are being allowed to go “you know how so and so has read as a very repressed queer for years? They are. Surprise!” and put more than a Token Non Straight person/couple in a book. (But also. We are still terminally afflicted with fanservice of best friends, and cmon at this point for some of these pairs I’m like ‘put up or shut up and let them be best friends’)