ami-angelwings: eschergirls: I think Vampirella is still recovering from her fight with a giant crab. I was using this picture as an example of the straight male gaze influencing panel construction and how we are forced to view a character in a scene for a post on Escher Girls, and I finally realized what was going on here. I’ve never really looked at it carefully, I just always thought she was changing or just posing or something.  I only now realized she’s supposed to be changing her clothes and destroying the house.  But, because it’s just like butt shot, butt shot, butt shot, butt shot, I never picked up on what was going on because the panel focus is so much on her butt and her body that it’s hard to know what exactly is going on, especially since she’s barely moving, it’s just static butt shots (and the same one copy pasted 3 times at the end). The main focus was to give us butt shots & a full body shot featuring her boobs and crotch. Not just can it be distracting to constantly have to see things through this sort of straight male gaze, but sometimes it can really detract from your immersion and understanding of a scene if you feel like the “camera” is just so focused on looking at women’s butts and breasts that the other, often important, storytelling elements are being ignored. there was meant to be PLOT to this page?
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ami-angelwings:

eschergirls:

I think Vampirella is still recovering from her fight with a giant crab.

I was using this picture as an example of the straight male gaze influencing panel construction and how we are forced to view a character in a scene for a post on Escher Girls, and I finally realized what was going on here.

I’ve never really looked at it carefully, I just always thought she was changing or just posing or something.  I only now realized she’s supposed to be changing her clothes and destroying the house.  But, because it’s just like butt shot, butt shot, butt shot, butt shot, I never picked up on what was going on because the panel focus is so much on her butt and her body that it’s hard to know what exactly is going on, especially since she’s barely moving, it’s just static butt shots (and the same one copy pasted 3 times at the end). The main focus was to give us butt shots & a full body shot featuring her boobs and crotch.

Not just can it be distracting to constantly have to see things through this sort of straight male gaze, but sometimes it can really detract from your immersion and understanding of a scene if you feel like the “camera” is just so focused on looking at women’s butts and breasts that the other, often important, storytelling elements are being ignored.

there was meant to be PLOT to this page?

Source: eschergirls

New issue of Transformative Works and Cultures on comics fandom

fanhackers:

Fan studies journal Transformative Works and Cultures has published its thirteenth issue on comics fandom. Here are links to all the articles, on topics ranging from women in comics fandom to fans on 4chan to Captain America and various other Avengers-related things. Enjoy! As usual, we’ll be posting some good quotes from the articles too.

Editorial:

Matthew J. Costello: The super politics of comic book fandom

Theory:

Suzanne Scott: Fangirls in refrigerators: The politics of (in)visibility in comic book culture

Praxis:

Catherine Coker: Earth 616, Earth 1610, Earth 3490—Wait, what universe is this again? The creation and evolution of the Avengers and Captain America/Iron Man fandom

Lyndsay Brown: Pornographic space-time and the potential of fantasy in comics and fan art

Tim Bavlnka: /Co/operation and /co/mmunity in /co/mics: 4chan’s Hypercrisis

Symposium (short articles):

Forrest Phillips: Captain America and fans’ political activity

Babak Zarin: The advocacy of Steve Rogers (aka Captain America), as seen in hetrez’s “Average Avengers Local Chapter 7 of New York”

Amanda Odom: Professionalism: Hyperrealism and play

Rebecca Lucy Busker: Fandom and male privilege: Seven years later

Kayley Thomas: Revisioning the smiling villain: Imagetexts and intertextual expression in representations of the filmic Loki on Tumblr

Ora C. McWilliams: Who is afraid of a black Spider(-Man)?

Interviews:

Matthew J. Costello: Interview with comics artist Lee Weeks

Kate Roddy, Carlen Lavigne, Suzanne Scott: Toward a feminist superhero: An interview with Will Brooker, Sarah Zaidan, and Suze Shore

Reviews:

Daniel Stein: “Comic books and American cultural history: An anthology,” edited by Matthew Pustz

Drew Morton: “Of comics and men: A cultural history of American comic books,” by Jean-Paul Gabilliet

Ghost

wikipediafeedback:

Feedback on the Wikipedia article on ghosts:

Can you make a page of: ” How to tell if a ghost is fake. “

We received several requests for more pictures of ghosts:

more pictures of actual ghosts

…actual ghosts? Surely they mean like drawings or paintings, right?

I think there should be more pictures of ghosts, like real pictures not just paintings.

Nope.

(via holystrawberriesbatman)

Source: wikipediafeedback

keithulhu:

I always kinda laugh when people do “Gender swap” characters, because it would be hilarious if nothing actually changed except their concept of their own gender. Because by definition, that’s all that would happen.

It doesn’t mean they lose or gain anything physical, deal with it. :D

this gets sort of off-topic, but it’s a thing i’ve been thinking about, so forgive me for hijacking your post! (edit: holy fuck that’s long, added readmore)

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  • men get into something not aimed at their gender: get special titles like "brony." recognition by creators. heralded for defying gender appeal. get documentary.
  • women get into something not aimed at their gender: not real fans. probably secret friend zone warriors deadset on erasing men from the human race. get insulting demeaning memes and sexual harassment.

Source: lunarwhale