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Why does Tumblr have an obsession with vitiligo?

  • Suicide Girl model and America's Next Top Model contestant have it, spread on Tumblr, that's why.

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  • Stop fucking asking this this question.

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  • I swear to God I will start deleting these posts.

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  • Goddammit.

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  • ACTUALLY IT'S PART OF A DEEP FALSE-FLAG OPERATION TO TURN ALL BLACK PEOPLE WHITE.

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Speaking of racebends, I wanted to share a good one with you.
The artist actually kept true to Poison Ivy's sexiness and sensuality. The outfit has a bit of a leaf-like appearance while being its own thing and the buns remind me of flower buds. Coupled with the brown skin, it reminds me of a flowering tree. The elfin features (and freckles) help make her unique.

These people could learn something from this.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Speaking of racebends, I wanted to share a good one with you.
The artist actually kept true to Poison Ivy's sexiness and sensuality. The outfit has a bit of a leaf-like appearance while being its own thing and the buns remind me of flower buds. Coupled with the brown skin, it reminds me of a flowering tree. The elfin features (and freckles) help make her unique.

These people could learn something from this.
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Plus I could tell as soon as I opened the spoiler that was Poison Ivy (Or Zyra from League of Legends).
 
c-no said:
Reason for an Adventure Time like art style is that 1) most tumblrinas would just want to take a lot of shortcuts as possible and 2) they would try to use it because it comes from some cartoon they love to sperg over for whatever reason.
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Tumblrinas haven't sperged over Adventure Time in a while now (and as an Adventure Time fan, I'm glad), but they still continue to ape the art style. The difference is that the Adventure Time crew use simple character designs as a deliberate design choice, and they actually make it work, but Tumblrites only use it because it gives them an excuse to be lazy.
 
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From Kate Leth's Power Up! comic. I wonder if he counts as a male power fantasy.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
The guy is a has-been athlete so maybe seeing a figure of "toxic masculinity" doing this won't bother them. Interestingly, he's got the best looking outfit. (Scroll down.) Sandy's is ok and Aime's looks like she's wearing a diaper.
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Shocked Kate hasn't gotten hit with the "TRANSMISOGYNY" thing because guy in dress.
But that's funny he has the best outfit.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Speaking of racebends, I wanted to share a good one with you.
The artist actually kept true to Poison Ivy's sexiness and sensuality. The outfit has a bit of a leaf-like appearance while being its own thing and the buns remind me of flower buds. Coupled with the brown skin, it reminds me of a flowering tree. The elfin features (and freckles) help make her unique.

These people could learn something from this.
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That's actually a really kickass design. Dreds are pretty fitting with Ivy's character.

For the record, I have a pretty open mind when it comes to race bending. I like seeing different interpretations of different characters. It can be pretty cool. Too bad it's done poorly a lot of the time.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Speaking of racebends, I wanted to share a good one with you.
The artist actually kept true to Poison Ivy's sexiness and sensuality. The outfit has a bit of a leaf-like appearance while being its own thing and the buns remind me of flower buds. Coupled with the brown skin, it reminds me of a flowering tree. The elfin features (and freckles) help make her unique.

These people could learn something from this.
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If they did, we wouldn't be talking about them. At least, not in the way we are now.
 
In fairness, it’s probably for the best that this generation’s censors and propagandists are fixated on fan-art as opposed to stuff that actually affects the public.
 
Thiletonomics said:
I don't get the message that BABD is attempting to convey using this picture "example".
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I think the message is that they are saying game developers should pay attention to this because of the last part mentioned in the image, that women wore the same armor as men.

APerson said:
That is them sarcastically telling people how to design female armor (ex. uncover everything which isn't explicitly vulgar).
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That is the point. In all honesty, the scantily clad female armor is a sort of trite and overused design but really, what should matter in design isn't just some notion of practicality in armor or fan-service in looks but something that really does go with a character visually. Outside of the whole "fan-service" design and practical armor arguments that get thrown out, one has to ask if these people really pay attention to a character in how they act and how they speak, what their world is or what culture they come from (in which the obivous answer would be they wouldn't care).
 
c-no said:
I think the message is that they are saying game developers should pay attention to this because of the last part mentioned in the image, that women wore the same armor as men.


That is the point. In all honesty, the scantily clad female armor is a sort of trite and overused design but really, what should matter in design isn't just some notion of practicality in armor or fan-service in looks but something that really does go with a character visually. Outside of the whole "fan-service" design and practical armor arguments that get thrown out, one has to ask if these people really pay attention to a character in how they act and how they speak, what their world is or what culture they come from (in which the obivous answer would be they wouldn't care).
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Of course they don't care. This is Tumblr, the most blatantly superficial subculture I've ever witnessed. Their use of labels as identity is very telling: they can't be bothered to look at a character beyond their looks and labels. You can see how quickly they are to change who a character is supposed to be to fit their headcanons and shippings. I don't know if it's inability or refusal to understand personalities beyond a tag list and looks.
In their logic, an attractive, skimpy female is the devil and can't possibly be anything but male gaze fanservice, even if the character is actually charismatic, entertaining or cool. Not surprisingly, in their effort to insult cishet males who they consider superficial for liking fanservice, they become even more superficial and vain. "It's bad to judge people for their looks, so let's judge people for their looks! It's alright when we do it because we are punching up!"

Personally I think bikini armor is a thing that belongs more in a porno than in a serious story, but then again it's a design trope for fictional characters and ultimately harmless. This people needs to shame less and work more if they want to be taken seriously. You don't change the world with whining but showing valid alternatives, something that, so far, they keep failing at. Most of their redesigns are merely being contrarian or downright derivative and half-assed. Just making the opposite of a thing is not creative.
 
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