April 2013 – jfml-blog

Illustration: Cory Godbey

Dammit, this is from LotR? Whatever, he (Godbey not Tolkien) still get’s the karmapoint for not doing the Guys Smash Girls Shoot-trope. Check out his website, blog, (nice process post) Tumblr, Store, Carbonmade, Behance …

For some reason I stumbled across quite a few articles on feminism and sexuality recently. First up was this article in The Skinny’s Deviance section (which is almost always an interesting read) from Nichole Edwards who is doing a PhD on feminism and (hetero)sexual desire.

Next, this post on cutout fanservice characters vs sexy characters with a strong agency in anime, leading to this post (which I’ve seen linked to before by A Cracked Moon) about How to be a fan of problematic things, which is a fun read:

In real life, people have to go to the bathroom. In movies and books, they don’t show that very much, because it’s boring and gross. Well, guess what: bigotry is also boring and gross. But everyone is just dying to keep that in the script.

Oh and since I haven’t linked to them here are two excellent posts on rape as a plot device/women in refrigerator trope: The Rape of James Bond and Cut Superman’s Dick off.

Animation: Toh Kay – With Any Sort Of Certainty

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Black Vikings: PoC in Medieval Europe

Yesterday I witnessed someone doing the „But there where no People of Color in Europe in the Middle Ages therefore having absolutely no diversity in this book/game/movie/tv-show is totally cool!“ bullshit again, so I’ll collect examples of the contrary on this page. I’d be happy about more content!

Illustration: Lady Knights Woman Warriors Zine

A piece by Sam Bosma for the Woman Warriors Zine by Julia Scott, Roxie Vizcarra and Abby Boeh (Lots of other submissions can be seen on her tumblr). It should soon be available for pre-order.