Allstate Recognizing The Struggle Of Living With Yaoi Hands

Allstate recognizing the struggle of living with yaoi hands

Not everyone has to deal with abuse and harassment, but enough do that Twitter must take action. In a disproportionate amount of cases of harassment, those individuals are women, LGBT individuals and people of color. These individuals find value in the service, but the problem is their attackers mean as much to Twitter as they do. The weapons to fight abuse must be kept locked up, for the good of the product. This tacit statement that profit comes before people has to stop.

- Ben Kuchera, "Twitter can fix its harassment problem, but why mess with success?" (via femfreq)

maplepoutine submitted:

This is not really an Escher Girl, but the LoL cinematic trailer submission on this page made me think of this screencap of an FF XV trailer.  Notice how every male character have textured, realist skin while the two female characters have perfect pale skin with makeup on.

This reminds me of a previous post where somebody brought up the lack of wrinkles or facial creases of any kind on a woman character in a League of Legends trailer, and I also posted a picture of the male and female faces in Batman: Arkham City as another example where female faces must be devoid of any lines (even expression lines) while male faces can have all sorts of interesting features and details, and can be exaggerated to give more character to the faces.

This isn’t just about women having to be portrayed as eternally young, or how women’s standards for beauty are so tied with having no lines on our faces, but it’s also incredibly limiting when designing and portraying female characters.  If all your female characters always have to have smooth round faces, no wrinkles, etc (and often big eyes and pouty lips too), then it’s going to be that much harder to try to make them look different than each other.  And if they also aren’t allowed to show lines on their faces for expressions, then it’s going to limit the range of their expression too, or they’re going to end up with a weird doll look when you do have them emote.  The point is, it can end up creating a very limited box for female character visuals, and creating characters that all look very similarly, even if you really don’t mean to. And that in turn limits how much information you can convey about those characters, visually.

This just goes to show how much gender and even biological sex still matter to people even when they don't really know you. If not knowing whether someone in social media is a man or a woman qualifies as being teased to death then it must really bug people when they can't tell and act accordingly. It shouldn't matter. I hope there will be a day when they quit asking and just celebrate all kinds of representations of identity, be it gendered or otherwise.

Do you dress androgonously (my computer is giving me angry red squiggles so sorry if I spelled that wrong or if that's the wrong word >3

(( Lol, noooo, I dress androgynous or crossdress irl as well. :) My co workers like to guess what I’ll be dressed as each day. ))

Seems like a worthwhile project. I'm definitely backing this one!

Imagined Realms: Book 1

I have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the first issue of Imagined Realms, an annual art publication featuring positive and diverse representations of women in fantasy and science fiction. Each book will feature 10 exclusive and new illustrations created by me specifically for the book.  

Available for purchase are the printed books, 6”x8” and 11”x14” print packs that have all 10 illustrations, limited edition fine art giclees, and a downloadable process video showing my digital painting method. 

Please check it out and spread the word! The more successful this first book is, the faster I can Book 2 completed. :) 

Haha! BAMF!

youre gonna look so godamn cool