Tidy Up Tuesday #14
This week tidying-up:
Many readers noted us that artwork Sword of Chaos uses in their online banners is fanart (for Legend of Zelda and Card Captor Sakura, in this case) stolen from a popular artist, @sakimichan.
Yes, SoC is that shameless.
A reminder: just because something appears on our blog (therefore we consider it worth criticizing), it doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy it.
Hell, acknowledging problems in things that we are fans of enriches the experience.
As many rebloggers and commenters pointed out, it would be nice to see life action Wonder Woman have genuinely amazonian built, like how Stjepan Sejic depicts her. Still, at the end of the day,
ill-suiting physique (unlike
tacky sexualized costume) is at least something that can be compensated with the actresses’s good performance.
A reader, @jarahamee, asked us to signal boost their new webcomic,
Shining Ascension, which stars two well-suited warrior ladies on a quest together.
The story is just 8 pages in at the moment, but so far it looks promising, especially the gorgeous art.
The comic updates on Sundays. Its official tumblr is @shiningascension
~Ozzie & – wincenworks
Tidy Up Tuesday #14
This week tidying-up:
Many readers noted us that artwork Sword of Chaos uses in their online banners is fanart (for Legend of Zelda and Card Captor Sakura, in this case) stolen from a popular artist, @sakimichan.
Yes, SoC is that shameless.
A reminder: just because something appears on our blog (therefore we consider it worth criticizing), it doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy it.
Hell, acknowledging problems in things that we are fans of enriches the experience.
As many rebloggers and commenters pointed out, it would be nice to see life action Wonder Woman have genuinely amazonian built, like how Stjepan Sejic depicts her. Still, at the end of the day,
ill-suiting physique (unlike
tacky sexualized costume) is at least something that can be compensated with the actresses’s good performance.
A reader, @jarahamee, asked us to signal boost their new webcomic,
Shining Ascension, which stars two well-suited warrior ladies on a quest together.
The story is just 8 pages in at the moment, but so far it looks promising, especially the gorgeous art.
The comic updates on Sundays. Its official tumblr is @shiningascension
~Ozzie & – wincenworks
Tidy Up Tuesday #13
After a week off, here are some recent tidy-ups:
Our blog has tags for reference and resources on armor (especially positive female armor).
For those of you who are additionally looking for body type reference for their character design, this tag on art-and-sterf is pretty decent, as is that one on @artist-refs.
We still can not offer design critiques. However, an affiliated blog devoted to that is in the works currently, we’ll let you guys know when it emerges.
We do not have backgrounds where we are comfortable giving out advice regarding attire specific to particular cultures and/or religions.
Oh, and reminder that there’s that part in our FAQ, in case anyone jumps in to say we don’t like fun because we’re so critical.
Things we got in our inbox that were featured on BABD before:
- If I don’t get pants, nobody gets pants! Wonder Woman/Justice League parody
– wincenworks & ~Ozzie
Tidy Up Tuesday #13
After a week off, here are some recent tidy-ups:
Our blog has tags for reference and resources on armor (especially positive female armor).
For those of you who are additionally looking for body type reference for their character design, this tag on art-and-sterf is pretty decent, as is that one on @artist-refs.
We still can not offer design critiques. However, an affiliated blog devoted to that is in the works currently, we’ll let you guys know when it emerges.
We do not have backgrounds where we are comfortable giving out advice regarding attire specific to particular cultures and/or religions.
Oh, and reminder that there’s that part in our FAQ, in case anyone jumps in to say we don’t like fun because we’re so critical.
Things we got in our inbox that were featured on BABD before:
- If I don’t get pants, nobody gets pants! Wonder Woman/Justice League parody
– wincenworks & ~Ozzie
Tidy Up Tuesday #12
This week tidying-up:
To anyone who says BABD is shaming women who like to dress their female game characters in skimpy gear: we challenge you to find a single post where we say that. Go, look it up! We’ll wait.
When submitting, please remember that this blog’s primary concern is warrior costume design. Art where contorted anatomy, not the costume, is the problem is more appropriate as a submission to @eschergirls.
Inquiries covered before on the blog:
- Why shirtless male characters do not level out
sexualization of female characters in impossible bras
(do we still have to reiterate this?) - While Blizzard does some token effort to improve, they still don’t seem fully committed to positive change.
- Captain Phasma
- This sexy holy knight (NSFW)
~Ozzie & – wincenworks
Tidy Up Tuesday #12
This week tidying-up:
To anyone who says BABD is shaming women who like to dress their female game characters in skimpy gear: we challenge you to find a single post where we say that. Go, look it up! We’ll wait.
When submitting, please remember that this blog’s primary concern is warrior costume design. Art where contorted anatomy, not the costume, is the problem is more appropriate as a submission to @eschergirls.
Inquiries covered before on the blog:
- Why shirtless male characters do not level out
sexualization of female characters in impossible bras
(do we still have to reiterate this?) - While Blizzard does some token effort to improve, they still don’t seem fully committed to positive change.
- Captain Phasma
- This sexy holy knight (NSFW)
~Ozzie & – wincenworks
MAGIC MEAT WEEK 2015 IS ON!!
ATTENTION ARTIST! the wonderful Amanda Sharpe came up with the idea to dedicate an entire week to the creation of hot fantasy dudes… or…
MAGIC MEAT WEEK!!!
One magical week where everyone is welcome to contribute to the collection of fantasy men is skimpy, revealing, impractical and…. empowering outfits.
So for the week of NOV. 1st through NOV. 7th join us and crank out some wonderfully styled fantasy dudes and tag those beauties #MagicMeatWeek!!!
SPREAD THE WORD!!
(image sources from heymonster, runningwithpaper, hattedhedgehog, st-kisai, birdgecageboys)
The long-awaited return of Magic Meat Week comes, YES!
Just as last year, we encourage all the artists among our readers to contribute to the
#MagicMeatWeek tumblr tag throughout the upcoming week! Let the world know there’s a demand for sexy under-dressed fantasy dudes!
BABD will be celebrating the week by reblogging artwork found in the tag as extra sexy male armor posts. And possibly, by extending the next Happy Friday.
~Ozzie