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Tidy Up Tuesday #45

When submitting a post with images in it, please don’t insert pics from external sources, like Photobucket – they’re super unreliable. When uploading images from your own hard drive isn’t possible, it’s best to make a private post on your own tumblr blog and insert pictures from there.

You are always welcome to direct people to Bikini Armor Battle Damage as a resource for information about gender issues in fictional armor or tag us into anything that you feel we might be interested in.

If you have general questions about armor or how to adapt in fiction, you can send your queries to @how-do-i-armour-and-stuff

Things we addressed before:

~Ozzie & – wincenworks

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Tidy Up Tuesday #44

A longer tidy-up this week:

While tangentially related to BABD, we gotta thank all the readers who directed us at @wackd‘s Bad Genderbend Bingo, a very acute look into double standards in redesigning an established character to be of different sex/gender (in this bingo’s case, male to female).

Few more facts regarding Frank Cho storming off DC due to “censorship” of his optional Wonder Woman covers:

  • It was not disclosed to Cho that Greg Rucka, the writer for recent Wonder Woman run, was given creative control over all the cover art.
  • Cho seems to regard “artistic freedom” of his optional cover freelance contract equally (if not more) valid to Rucka’s script freelance contract with DC.
  • While Rucka asked for several changes in Cho’s covers, cropping of the gratuitous pantyshot in issue #3 is what ultimately prompted the artist to quit.

For those confused why we didn’t heap unconditional praise over Ana Amari’s design is because Blizzard has a long history of taking a very safe half-step forward and expecting praise (and then halting all progress indefinitely).  Overwatch has an abundance of problems that aren’t going to be fixed by adding a new character or pretending the game has something close to gender equitable representation.

Thing we addressed before:

~Ozzie & – wincenworks

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Tidy Up Tuesday #44

A longer tidy-up this week:

While tangentially related to BABD, we gotta thank all the readers who directed us at @wackd‘s Bad Genderbend Bingo, a very acute look into double standards in redesigning an established character to be of different sex/gender (in this bingo’s case, male to female).

Few more facts regarding Frank Cho storming off DC due to “censorship” of his optional Wonder Woman covers:

  • It was not disclosed to Cho that Greg Rucka, the writer for recent Wonder Woman run, was given creative control over all the cover art.
  • Cho seems to regard “artistic freedom” of his optional cover freelance contract equally (if not more) valid to Rucka’s script freelance contract with DC.
  • While Rucka asked for several changes in Cho’s covers, cropping of the gratuitous pantyshot in issue #3 is what ultimately prompted the artist to quit.

For those confused why we didn’t heap unconditional praise over Ana Amari’s design is because Blizzard has a long history of taking a very safe half-step forward and expecting praise (and then halting all progress indefinitely).  Overwatch has an abundance of problems that aren’t going to be fixed by adding a new character or pretending the game has something close to gender equitable representation.

Thing we addressed before:

~Ozzie & – wincenworks

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Tidy Up Tuesday #43

From time to time we receive questions relating to armor or battle in general, requests for feedback on designs or more in depth analysis of outfits that doesn’t really fit the focus of this blog.

So, wincenworks is now experimenting with a side blog that will focus on addressing those gaps – called, creatively enough: How do I armour and stuff? 

If you have sent any such requests or queries to BABD then please feel free to re-send them there (Tumblr really doesn’t facilitate cross blog submissions)

It has been brought to our attention that the recently featured US Avengers comic unfortunately greatly whitens Roberto da Costa – so while we love Toni’s armor we do not endorse the comic it’s unfortunately debuting in.

Things we addressed before:

~Ozzie & – wincenworks

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Tidy Up Tuesday #43

From time to time we receive questions relating to armor or battle in general, requests for feedback on designs or more in depth analysis of outfits that doesn’t really fit the focus of this blog.

So, wincenworks is now experimenting with a side blog that will focus on addressing those gaps – called, creatively enough: How do I armour and stuff? 

If you have sent any such requests or queries to BABD then please feel free to re-send them there (Tumblr really doesn’t facilitate cross blog submissions)

It has been brought to our attention that the recently featured US Avengers comic unfortunately greatly whitens Roberto da Costa – so while we love Toni’s armor we do not endorse the comic it’s unfortunately debuting in.

Things we addressed before:

~Ozzie & – wincenworks

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Tidy Up Tuesday #42

Sadly no, unless we missed something really big at Marvel Captain Peggy Carter the super soldier does not yet exist outside of Marvel Puzzle Quest.

On the topic of exotification, @daicalina made a lengthy but very worthwhile Twitter thread on the inclusion of Overwatch skins like Pharah’s Thunderbird and Rainmaker options.

Things we addressed before: 

– wincenworks & ~Ozzie

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Tidy Up Tuesday #42

Sadly no, unless we missed something really big at Marvel Captain Peggy Carter the super soldier does not yet exist outside of Marvel Puzzle Quest.

On the topic of exotification, @daicalina made a lengthy but very worthwhile Twitter thread on the inclusion of Overwatch skins like Pharah’s Thunderbird and Rainmaker options.

Things we addressed before: 

– wincenworks & ~Ozzie

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Tidy Up Tuesday #40

We were glad to learn that the creator of @pointandclickbait addressed the hilarity of completely self-unaware responses to his Space Marines Can’t Be Female, Because Then I Would Need To Re-Think My Life article (which we referenced in this post) from the Warhammer 40k bros.

He was amused, but not surprised:

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Things we addressed before:

~Ozzie & – wincenworks