SJW Art and Extremes

[weirdMcGee]

I know this thread is filled with Osomatsu bullshit already but I need to post this.

this looks decent despite the fact they're suppose to be identical siblings. I don't get Tumblr sometimes.

 

[Valstrax]

So there's this thing called 'Sapphic Summer' and I think I lost a few brain cells looking at the art.

 

[burlap dress]

So there's this thing called 'Sapphic Summer' and I think I lost a few brain cells looking at the art.

finally someone mentions this, i keep seeing it on my dash every day

 

[Valstrax]

finally someone mentions this, i keep seeing it on my dash every day

Like, it's just lesbians, fat bitches and trannies it's not like we've seen this shit a million times before in Homestuck and BNHA fanart fuck Tumblr.

 

[Windelsiya]

Like, it's just lesbians, fat bitches and trannies it's not like we've seen this shit a million times before in Homestuck and BNHA fanart fuck Tumblr.

Speaking of BNHA, there's a lot of lesbian and gay fan art of the anime...Strange, since it seems the site has a raging, immature hatred for the creator.
People love to make gay Uraraka stuff especially, claiming that she truly loves Tsuyu...evem though she and Deku clearly like each other lol.

 

[Monolith]

So there's this thing called 'Sapphic Summer' and I think I lost a few brain cells looking at the art.

Not Porn™ and Not Fetishization™.

 

[Rand /pol/]

Probably really :late: but what does the "Extremes" in the title mean.

 

[One Man Bland]

So there's this thing called 'Sapphic Summer' and I think I lost a few brain cells looking at the art.

>Sapphic Summer
>opening pre-orders in autumn

 

[Valstrax]

Probably really :late: but what does the "Extremes" in the title mean.

Anything that's of the following:

- Overly exaggerated body proportions
- Forced sexuality/diversity/gender headcanons
- Rory
- DOWN WITH CIS
- Fetishization

Etc.

Feel free to add on!

 

[One Man Bland]

Anything that's of the following:

- Overly exaggerated body proportions
- Forced sexuality/diversity/gender headcanons
- Rory
- DOWN WITH CIS
- Fetishization

Etc.

Feel free to add on!

I'd also include:

- Gratuitous and gross details artist says are in the name of "body positivity" but really just highlights the insecurities of the Tumblrina drawing it like excessive leg/arm/armpit hair, stretch marks, acne, visible period stains, etc.
- "Practical"™ or "Realistic"™ redesigns of (usually) female characters that are also some Tumblrina getting pissy over a fictional person being prettier than them
- Sausage limbs and Same Face Syndrome that's supposed to depict "diverse body types (except skinny whores)"

 

[Windelsiya]

I'd also include:

- Gratuitous and gross details artist says are in the name of "body positivity" but really just highlights the insecurities of the Tumblrina drawing it like excessive leg/arm/armpit hair, stretch marks, acne, visible period stains, etc.
- "Practical"™ or "Realistic"™ redesigns of (usually) female characters that are also some Tumblrina getting pissy over a fictional person being prettier than them
- Sausage limbs and Same Face Syndrome that's supposed to depict "diverse body types (except skinny whores)"

Believing that a few years of Tumblr art tutorials is = to knowledge on art past manga artists who've been in the business for over a decade.

 

[Cynthia]

A lot of it traces back to Homestuck.

There's always been this kind of nomadic general fandom that's perpetually full of horny teenage girls that moves from one property to the next, never sticking around for too long. Homestuck was a rare example of them not only all getting into the exact same thing at the exact same time, but also the longest they stayed in a fandom. Once the first great Giga-Pause happened, the nomadic fandom, now all Homestucks, branched out into every other popular fandom and took their ideas with them. And it was the Homestuck fandom where these weird ideas were fostered.

The idea that characters could be any race and you could just announce it as if it were fact? This was due to the kids in Homestuck being literal white avatars, a step up from the stick figures of Problem Sleuth. People started asking Andrew Hussie what race they were, and Hussie answered along the lines of "whatever you want them to be."

This paved the way for all kinds of highly varied takes on the characters. Fat, skinny, tall, short, black, white, brown, and whatever, all of it was applied. Around this time that one photoset of a Suicide Girl model with vitiligo made the rounds on Tumblr and got a ton of reblogs. So that's how vitiligo seeped in. Every single interpretation was considered "correct..." unless you thought they were all white. That was lead to the huge "Caucasian/Peachy" controversy where Hussie tried to make a joke out of the fandom's fixation on the race of these characters.

Unfortunately, I can't name any big names off the top of my head because, at the time, I was still very much rooted in the TF2 fandom and community, where this cancer took a bit longer to seep in. But after that Giga Pause, this cluster of fans obsessed with identity politics spread out, and infected everything they touched with these unspoken rules. The nomadic fandom has since attracted less of the squeeing yaoi fangirls, and more of the virtuous SJWs coming to save other fans from themselves by deliberately baiting and humiliating them for not playing along with their games. Lately, declaring yourself a lesbian has been very popular. I'm not sure how much of that was influenced by Steven Universe (a show Tumblr barely cared about until the season finale that revealed Garnet was a fusion, and thus two alien rock lesbians) and Legend of Korra (which ended with the two female leads holding hands and going to tour the Spirit Realm). As far as the fandom entitlement, that goes back even further to 2009 with Glee, where the writers decided to make two minor characters lesbians because fans would ask about it. Since then, as social media grows bigger and faster, the sense of entitlement of these fans has also ballooned.

It's been a weird thing to watch happen, honestly. Fan entitlement + gender non-conformity as a subculture has made the fandom even more caustic than it had ever been before.

Imagine how different things could have been if Hussie had just colored the kids in...

 

[Trilby]

Imagine how different things could have been if Hussie had just colored the kids in...

Let alone if he said nothing to these fans of why he didn't in the first place. What happened just kinda fueled all this.

 

[Valstrax]

Imagine how different things could have been if Hussie had just colored the kids in...

Trust me, you DON'T want to know.

 

[Thiletonomics]

I'd also include:

- Gratuitous and gross details artist says are in the name of "body positivity" but really just highlights the insecurities of the Tumblrina drawing it like excessive leg/arm/armpit hair, stretch marks, acne, visible period stains, etc.
- "Practical"™ or "Realistic"™ redesigns of (usually) female characters that are also some Tumblrina getting pissy over a fictional person being prettier than them
- Sausage limbs and Same Face Syndrome that's supposed to depict "diverse body types (except skinny whores)"

Also, some of these "artists" like to depict characters as being Muslim for some reason, i.e. drawing them with burkas.

 

[StarsCreamInHell]

They look appropriately horrified.

 

[Cynthia]

Why is it always Dangan Ronpa?

 

[Windelsiya]

Why is it always Dangan Ronpa?

How ironic that I just found this:

 

[Valstrax]

How ironic that I just found this:

Like always, censored titties.

 

[judge claude frollo]

supposed to be:

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