The hilarious front line in the tragic war against ridiculous female armor
Just a few things addressed before:
~Ozzie & – wincenworks
Big tidy up this week, it’s been an exciting seven days!
For those who had queries regarding the racial representation issues: Given both admins are super white, we strongly recommend that you consider looking at and supporting resources by people of color on the topic such as:
Regarding boobs and armor, we’ve covered this before in a few places but it’s probably worth stressing a few points. From a practical perspective: Armor should never be tight, especially not hard armor like plate. Armor should be roomy enough for you to move in, and have space for padding, dents, etc, and that means it’ll be roomy enough for ample breast support.
If you’re looking for inspiration, we recommend checking the positive examples tag – you never know what might give you great ideas. However since someone asks, some of our favorite examples from science fiction are Captain Phasma, the soldiers of XCom, Sharpnel by OmeN2501 and Gloria – sci-fi Jeanne d’Arc by Nicolas Francoeur.
If you’re looking for the worst of the worst, well we recommend checking out the Female Armor Bingo tag – it really depends on how do you want to rate it?
The horrifying thing about female armor design is there are so many ways to the be the worst, and people are always working to pioneer new ones.
A few topics we’ve covered before:
-wincenworks & ~Ozzie
Big tidy up this week, it’s been an exciting seven days!
For those who had queries regarding the racial representation issues: Given both admins are super white, we strongly recommend that you consider looking at and supporting resources by people of color on the topic such as:
Regarding boobs and armor, we’ve covered this before in a few places but it’s probably worth stressing a few points. From a practical perspective: Armor should never be tight, especially not hard armor like plate. Armor should be roomy enough for you to move in, and have space for padding, dents, etc, and that means it’ll be roomy enough for ample breast support.
If you’re looking for inspiration, we recommend checking the positive examples tag – you never know what might give you great ideas. However since someone asks, some of our favorite examples from science fiction are Captain Phasma, the soldiers of XCom, Sharpnel by OmeN2501 and Gloria – sci-fi Jeanne d’Arc by Nicolas Francoeur.
If you’re looking for the worst of the worst, well we recommend checking out the Female Armor Bingo tag – it really depends on how do you want to rate it?
The horrifying thing about female armor design is there are so many ways to the be the worst, and people are always working to pioneer new ones.
A few topics we’ve covered before:
-wincenworks & ~Ozzie
Producer Ross Putman runs a twitter blog consisting entirely of introductions for female characters that he sees in scripts for Hollywood movies.
For submitted examples of bikini armor tropes and promotion of other similar critical pieces, we do ask that they be limited to commercial art and that a source be provided for confirmation. We do not support holding personal art up to the same standards and sometimes it can be tricky to confirm some images if they’re been liberally re-posted around the Internet.
@daeranilen has written an interesting article on the bodies of female characters in MMOs, particularly the new updates in World of Warcraft. It’s focused on body diversity rather than attire, but still covers many similar issues with the depictions of female characters.
Previously featured on BABD:
~Ozzie & – wincenworks
Producer Ross Putman runs a twitter blog consisting entirely of introductions for female characters that he sees in scripts for Hollywood movies.
For submitted examples of bikini armor tropes and promotion of other similar critical pieces, we do ask that they be limited to commercial art and that a source be provided for confirmation. We do not support holding personal art up to the same standards and sometimes it can be tricky to confirm some images if they’re been liberally re-posted around the Internet.
@daeranilen has written an interesting article on the bodies of female characters in MMOs, particularly the new updates in World of Warcraft. It’s focused on body diversity rather than attire, but still covers many similar issues with the depictions of female characters.
Previously featured on BABD:
~Ozzie & – wincenworks
Offworld is running a Kickstarter to publish a collection of writings about video games.
Steam is having a huge sale to celebrate Lunar New Year. We recommend it as a perfect time to look up a game or two from our curator list.
If you want to submit your art as a positive example and/or a parody of the bikini armor concept, no need to ask for permission. Submit away 🙂
In the same vein, an always-convenient way to direct us at something we didn’t have on the blog before is to put a link in a submission.
Addressed before:
– wincenworks & ~Ozzie
Offworld is running a Kickstarter to publish a collection of writings about video games.
Steam is having a huge sale to celebrate Lunar New Year. We recommend it as a perfect time to look up a game or two from our curator list.
If you want to submit your art as a positive example and/or a parody of the bikini armor concept, no need to ask for permission. Submit away 🙂
In the same vein, an always-convenient way to direct us at something we didn’t have on the blog before is to put a link in a submission.
Addressed before:
– wincenworks & ~Ozzie
This week:
BABD seems to have reached a spurt in non-follower activity, so here is a reminder: This is our FAQ. Those are the commenting rules. We also have an extensive rhetoric tag, topped with the Female Armor Rhetoric Bingo game, where we address virtually every pervasive argument regarding sexualization of female warriors in fiction.
We’d appreciate if everyone who’s replying to us familiarized themselves with all of the above beforehand.
Things we were noted about, but addressed before on the blog:
~Ozzie & – wincenworks
This week:
BABD seems to have reached a spurt in non-follower activity, so here is a reminder: This is our FAQ. Those are the commenting rules. We also have an extensive rhetoric tag, topped with the Female Armor Rhetoric Bingo game, where we address virtually every pervasive argument regarding sexualization of female warriors in fiction.
We’d appreciate if everyone who’s replying to us familiarized themselves with all of the above beforehand.
Things we were noted about, but addressed before on the blog:
~Ozzie & – wincenworks
This week:
@machiavellianfictionist directed us at this lengthy and comprehensive post by @sirobvious describing plate armor (+ here’s
machiavellianfictionist’s addition).
Definitely recommended as a resource on armor design.
~Ozzie & – wincenworks