I, Personally, Feel The Same Way As The Original Poster And I Wouldn't Necessarily Call It Victim Shaming.

I, personally, feel the same way as the original poster and I wouldn't necessarily call it victim shaming. In my case at least, it's not "Abel, why are you such a dumb, naive bitch?" it's "Oh Abel, why did your writer do this to you?" and there's a difference. Even if he ended up giving Cain the benefit of doubt, I would have loved to see a more mindful, aware Abel, but none of it is his fault, it's the author's.

I like Abel, but the way that he seems to have forgotten Cain’s attitude annoys me to no end. Others think that it is good that he has this doubtful loyalty, but to me he comes off as anywhere between naive, blind or outright stupid.

Why are they always hanging by their wrists? Isn't that a form of torture? Jesus! It's like adding insult to injury, or rather, injury to insult. It takes a special kind of indifference to ignore how much that shit would actually hurt.

Mary Jane Watson, Spiderman Vs. Kingpin (1990) #damselindistress

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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.

Hi Sam!

Thanks for taking the time to read this letter. As fellow YouTubers, we have much respect for others who put so much hard work into building their channel. It’s not easy, and you should be proud! That said, we’ve noticed that in your success, there has been a lack of...

Pogo feeding grapes to Merritt. ;)

To celebrate 100 pages of Demon of the Underground, I’m holding a special sketch request event.  The rules are simple: follow step 1, step 2, and step 3 above, and reblog this post with your selection typed out at the bottom.  (e.g. “Pogo petting Annie”.  And yes, if you really want to, you can request something like “Troy feeding grapes to Troy.”).

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-Only one request per reblog

-You can reblog more than once, but please request something different each time

-Maximum 1 reblog per day

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Requests are open until next Monday August 11 at 11:59pm CT.  I will randomly pick one winner on Tumblr and one winner on Facebook, where the celebration is also running.  Each winner will be posted respectively to Tumblr or Facebook that Thursday, August 14.

Did you request something awesome that didn’t get picked?  If I’m inspired, I might still use it for a future TWC voting incentive.

So there you go!  Request away, and let the weirdness begin! :D

Cute! And pretty deep too...