I think this person's point was lost when they drew the creatures to be very cute as well.
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Sarah's Scribbles is one of the better comics for drawing the author's self as pretty cute in most comics but knowing how to draw herself as an ugly goblin when the comic is making a point about insecurity or embarrassment around physical appearance.
That comic is basically the gold standard for how to convey those ideas in an otherwise cute art style.
Do you have a good example?
Closest i could find was this one:
Oh here's another:
They're just not easily searchable (many of the most popular ones are just reposted on pinterest or reblogged on someone else's tumblr).
Yeah, that's a good one. I also like this one:
https://sarahcandersen.com/post/726092139029774336
But most of what I'm thinking of is more than 10 years old, from her first two books (I have them in this house somewhere). Lots more angsty youth in those early collections, including some stuff about insecurities and self image.
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Meanwhile, I'm over here encouraging this behaviour like:
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I don't understand. Are the characters in the bottom frame supposed to look unattractive or undesirable in any way? Is that so for both or just the one on the left? If so, well, I don't see it.
I think they just turned Spanish for some reason.
So it's trans for translated?
Si
"If"?
i literally can't see dots that small to tell if i got an accent or not
It's the old "media shows you an objectively attractive character then attempts to gaslight you into thinking they're some kind of rotten gremlinesque undesirable" trope.
Ready Player One.
Shrek
Trans folks are really bad at being unattractive!
"youre pretty? skill issue."
It's a DLSS 5 meme.
So, you became cute AND spanish?
Been to Spain and I thought most young pp were good looking
my dude, once i got old enough that young (20s) people were not interested in me i noticed how they were all good looking, i just was too picky.
Young pp is the best pp.
I want to marry la creatura.
If I'm not confusing it with another comic they are already married
I mean in general. I feel like attractive people live in a reality so different from mine that we could never relate well enough to be more than acquaintances. Give me the adorable gremlin.
Gotcha, that makes sense I guess but I wouldn't generalise it that far
All of them are attractive, it's just a lot of people think attractive = conventionally attractive.
The artist is actually so cute though
Our self image has been destroyed by social media under capitalism.
"Heroin chic" used to be an unironic term for female beauty standards. Nothing will be as bad for our self-image as the white supremacist capitalist monoculture of the 20th century.
Social media has been a godsend, helping people build communities around other standards of beauty or even resisting central beauty standards altogether. The diversity of aesthetics, the social support for people who don't fit the cookie-cutter mould, the sharing of nutritional delicious meals without advertisers leaning on the editor.
Personally, people on social media advised me to cut shampoo when doctors told me to use more and more intense shampoo, so now I have healthier hair while spending less on product. Social media helped me recognize I was trans and showed me realistic transition timelines when regular media treated it as a vomitous joke and my psychiatrist said it was just the autistic tendency to question everything.
Without social media I would probably have killed myself, unable to make myself conform to how my those around me said I should look and act.
There are plenty of infohazards on social media, but Lemmy is also a social medium, as are reddit and youtube where I got most of that productive information over the years. I am glad social media exist, I'm glad we and others like us able to talk like this, and I hope we always will be able to. Though yeah, hopefully not through capitalism.
Yeah, that's why I don't like these under 16 social media bans. They're gonna get kids killed. And also the privacy invasion, microtargeting ads, malware, billionaire profits, and lack of action on malicious UX patterns.
Self image has been destroyed by both social and classic media under any regime - I'm pre-social media and my self image was just as bad. But yeah, I agree that social media carry the torch now.
IMO the creatures are cuter. 🤷♂️
Thank the gods I'm in the top half. I'm also in the bottom half, but we focus on me being in the top half.
Is this a blazer hoodie?
Pero me gusta La Criatura. ¡Es graciosa!
Yo tambien. No necesitas lucir bien para ser buena.
You're not attractive to yourself. You aren't your type but you are someone else's type.
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I think the bottom is probably what my transition will look like, except more kitty :3
:3
Hey Beep, are you Azul? because if so i like your art!
No bro.
I just liked the comic, so I shared it here.
aww i got banned from reddit for ~~posting luigis~~ the old ultraviolence. if you are on reddit would you tell azul i like her art?
i think it was this one that finally did it for me
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