Gay Porn Logic

Gay porn logic

Here’s a video from our Internetting While Female panel with Carolyn Petit, Katherine Cross and I at GaymerX last week.

Hmmm. I'd rather ask that, if the natural color of a character's eyes, lashes, eyebrows and hair can all be something wacky like purple or green, then why is the skin color always perfectly normal? If you're gonna be out there, then be all the way out there and give your character blue or violet skin or something. And if doing that would make the story unrealistic then, yes, why are the unrealistic hair and eyecolors totally acceptable? Is the color of a fictional character's skin really something that readers must be able categorize into a certain existing race? Food for thought..

This isn’t even from a yaoi it’s from My Candy Love, but if my avatar had had blond hair and blue eyes she’d’ve actually been Ukeiya

holy shit. they do have the same melty eyes and asymmetrical hair. please tell me my candy love is better than okane ga nai in at least one way or else I question why you’re playing it

Haha! BAMF!

youre gonna look so godamn cool

Not everyone has to deal with abuse and harassment, but enough do that Twitter must take action. In a disproportionate amount of cases of harassment, those individuals are women, LGBT individuals and people of color. These individuals find value in the service, but the problem is their attackers mean as much to Twitter as they do. The weapons to fight abuse must be kept locked up, for the good of the product. This tacit statement that profit comes before people has to stop.

- Ben Kuchera, "Twitter can fix its harassment problem, but why mess with success?" (via femfreq)

maplepoutine submitted:

This is not really an Escher Girl, but the LoL cinematic trailer submission on this page made me think of this screencap of an FF XV trailer.  Notice how every male character have textured, realist skin while the two female characters have perfect pale skin with makeup on.

This reminds me of a previous post where somebody brought up the lack of wrinkles or facial creases of any kind on a woman character in a League of Legends trailer, and I also posted a picture of the male and female faces in Batman: Arkham City as another example where female faces must be devoid of any lines (even expression lines) while male faces can have all sorts of interesting features and details, and can be exaggerated to give more character to the faces.

This isn’t just about women having to be portrayed as eternally young, or how women’s standards for beauty are so tied with having no lines on our faces, but it’s also incredibly limiting when designing and portraying female characters.  If all your female characters always have to have smooth round faces, no wrinkles, etc (and often big eyes and pouty lips too), then it’s going to be that much harder to try to make them look different than each other.  And if they also aren’t allowed to show lines on their faces for expressions, then it’s going to limit the range of their expression too, or they’re going to end up with a weird doll look when you do have them emote.  The point is, it can end up creating a very limited box for female character visuals, and creating characters that all look very similarly, even if you really don’t mean to. And that in turn limits how much information you can convey about those characters, visually.