I'm Not Trying To Dispute The Special White Boy Problem But I Will Say That Metz Has A Reason For Being

I'm not trying to dispute the special white boy problem but I will say that Metz has a reason for being all shocked by the customs. He has some sort of amnesia and doesn't remember anything from before he was found and almost sacrificed to the god of death.

Considering his mysterious background, I sort of get the feeling that Metz is a character that represents our time and through which the modern reader can explore the story's universe. It is pretty sad though that the artist thought he had to be white for that.

Even so, the racial representation in BTOM is better than most webcomics where people of color are often solitary, token characters. Here we have almost an entire cast of interesting, complex Aztecs and one white guy. It's a bit annoying that he's so speshul but I do appreciate the thought that went in to not only the fantastic setting but the other main characters who frankly are a lot more intriguing than Metz.

Special White Boy Syndrome

I have a webcomic rant, but if you’re a postive thinking person who can’t stand to see any artist criticized, then kindly ignore this. I don’t want to be a hater, but I am also an opinionated person with lots of feelings.

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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. ))

Hmmm. I'd rather ask that, if the natural color of a character's eyes, lashes, eyebrows and hair can all be something wacky like purple or green, then why is the skin color always perfectly normal? If you're gonna be out there, then be all the way out there and give your character blue or violet skin or something. And if doing that would make the story unrealistic then, yes, why are the unrealistic hair and eyecolors totally acceptable? Is the color of a fictional character's skin really something that readers must be able categorize into a certain existing race? Food for thought..

This isn’t even from a yaoi it’s from My Candy Love, but if my avatar had had blond hair and blue eyes she’d’ve actually been Ukeiya

holy shit. they do have the same melty eyes and asymmetrical hair. please tell me my candy love is better than okane ga nai in at least one way or else I question why you’re playing it

Pogo feeding grapes to Merritt. ;)

To celebrate 100 pages of Demon of the Underground, I’m holding a special sketch request event.  The rules are simple: follow step 1, step 2, and step 3 above, and reblog this post with your selection typed out at the bottom.  (e.g. “Pogo petting Annie”.  And yes, if you really want to, you can request something like “Troy feeding grapes to Troy.”).

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-Only one request per reblog

-You can reblog more than once, but please request something different each time

-Maximum 1 reblog per day

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Requests are open until next Monday August 11 at 11:59pm CT.  I will randomly pick one winner on Tumblr and one winner on Facebook, where the celebration is also running.  Each winner will be posted respectively to Tumblr or Facebook that Thursday, August 14.

Did you request something awesome that didn’t get picked?  If I’m inspired, I might still use it for a future TWC voting incentive.

So there you go!  Request away, and let the weirdness begin! :D

Isn’t it depressing to you guys that “only a few rapes” or “only in some routes” is so often the best you can get? I feel like sobbing…

are there any bl games that dont have rape? im basically unnerved by most nitro+chiral games and i dont want any repeats of suggestions of dmmd and tnc and i was wondering if there were any good fluffy ones that play out like straight dating sims

Oh man I don’t know how to help you.  I know several rape heavy ones…and I know a couple that are mostly PC but have one or two rape routes. The closest one I can say is…

Gakuen Heaven - seems to be half decent.  The animated series was cheesy, campy, and cute. Though it seems the tropes page mentions rape a few times so there’s gotta be in a route somewhere that involves it.

Though I mean there is…

Love Love Chau - but this is just a hilarious little parody based on Pacific Rim….but uhh no non-con.