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Tidy Up Tuesday #78
A couple things to tidy up this week!
A reader asked whether we can announce subjects our redesign streams beforehand. Sometimes the notification post hints at it, but usually not, considering we tend to pick the theme last minute…
…but this particular week we’re doing special #50 stream, in which we’ll be sexifying dudes from some particularly popular game. Hope that helps!
While we are happy to feature positive and commentary examples from a wild variety of sources, we will (with very few exceptions) only be featuring critical examples that come from verified commercial productions.
As such, we are unable to use images that are effectively unsourced (ones from Pintrest, Imgur, etc) – particularly given that the current state of reverse image searching rarely yields reliable results.
Please ensure all submissions are properly sourced so we can assign credit and blame alike to the deserving.
If you, a submitter, know where artwork comes from – tell us. If you don’t – look it up and only send it to us if you found the source.
We’ve been informed that a Tumblr user from whom we reblogged two bingos, including the last one, expresses transphobic views on their blog. We apologize for not picking up on that earlier.
BABD can not stand behind giving exposure to a transphobe, therefore both posts will be marked as private from now on.
Another apology for not noticing that the awesome unofficial Laura Kinney/X-23 redesign we reblogged yesterday was drawn by Kris Anka, who’s definitely a comic industry professional.
Tumblr unmarked our blog from “sensitive” and also apparently fixed the bug that didn’t allow to mark individual posts as sensitive on PC version of the platform.
Now worst of the worst posts from our NSFW tag are also invisible in Safe Mode. They’re additionally tagged as “sentitive” – but before clicking that link please keep in mind they’re the ones that feature imagery of distinctly explicit and/or suggestive and/or disturbing and/or violent nature – viewer discretion highly advised.
Many of you will probably enjoy this recent video by Extra Credits about the badass woman who was also the greatest pirate that ever lived:
When submitting images please, whenever possible, host them on Tumblr directly. Failing that, please ensure any other hosts (Photobucket is a notable, but not only example)
do not block or throttle direct or indirect linking.
@prokopetz wrote an interesting post about suspicious dimorphism, regarding completely different sets of teeth on female and male characters of the same species. It’s a bit too anatomy-specific for a BABD reblog, but really worth a read from character design/world building standpoint. (h/t: @kiashi29)
While we occasionally comment on contorted female anatomy, we urge our readers not to submit or tag us in posts that deal only with that issue. Please hit up our dear friend Ami @eschergirls when you see some atrociously twisted female character bodies in media.
Some historians have expressed concerns that people may over estimate the prevalence of warrior women, nobody can dispute that it’s pretty sweet that DNA testing has confirmed that history’s old system of just assuming if a skeleton has weapons it’s a dude has been debunked.
Long post this time around as there’s a few issues:
If you know female developers working on indie games and incorporating bikini armor or similar tropes is to, at the appropriate opportunity express your concerns as concerns for their production – and let them decide on how important it is to them.
If they’re interested that’s great, if not, then it is very unlikely that their production will have a profound impact on the market and she could very well have her own personal reasons for it. Personal projects are just that, personal.
However, if you are creating a game or similar production and you want to make it as accessible and welcoming as possible to as wide an audience as possible then we recommend researching the works of those talk about these things already.
And many others. Also if your production is to feature someone from a marginalized background that is not your own and be prepared to pay them. Consultants are generally not as expensive as you might think but can add massive value to your production.
In terms of actually working for a company in the industry and managing to be a positive influence, then that’s the very complicated balancing act of expressing yourself and respecting your employers. (If you work out how to master that, please tell me how).
But largely the best advice I can give if you happen to be in a company meeting is to be prepared to talk about ways they add or detract value to the production and be eager to show your working. Example:
We are aware that the blog is apparently flagged as restricted/adult content by Tumblr… though because it’s Tumblr it’s still unclear what this does everywhere.
