Can anyone tell me what issue this is from?
EDIT - Just found this (and others) in my draft posts folder. Will be posting them over a period of a few weeks. They look to be about a year old.
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Showing posts with label slashy. Show all posts
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Super Silly Sunday
Can anyone tell me what issue this is from?
EDIT - Just found this (and others) in my draft posts folder. Will be posting them over a period of a few weeks. They look to be about a year old.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Wonder Woman
Still, taken simply, it's good fun.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Super Sexy Saturday
Found from this website: http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2012/07/20/feature-fanart-friday-dc-comics-edition
Credited to this other site: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=28521226
I'm wary about putting women in these super sexy posts because I think they'll contribute to general objectification. hmm. maybe I should just look harder for better images?
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Blue and Gold together for life
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=11749449
This was nearly a super sexy saturday post, but I then decided it's too cute to be sexy. More affectionate than sexy.
(and yes, I may have more time on my hands now so you may see a whole lot more blogging from me. or you may not. we'll see.)
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Gaymazing Tim/Con slash
Love it.
Thursday, February 03, 2011
BatWondy! Have a date!
Yeah a real date! JLA 90:
Fun fact: At first glance both the boyfriend and myself assumed that was Superman's arm.
News on how the date went to come later..
Fun fact: At first glance both the boyfriend and myself assumed that was Superman's arm.
News on how the date went to come later..
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Coming out in Comics: Superman and Adam Strange
Check out this cover of Superman: World of New Krypton #11:
Well I saw that and thought it was the most homoerotic cover ever.
Why is this? Partly it's the poses - they are sticking close to each other, grinning at each other with a conspiratorial look. We can clearly see Adam Strange's arse, and you could claim that Superman's leg is poisitioned somewhat coyly. So why did I think Gay! when I saw it?
I think it is a combination of things:
1) We rarely see men's arses displayed and highlighted quite so (Green Lanterns aside). Usually women's bodies are shown off in this manner. So when I see men being positioned like women I read it as gay. Obviously this relies on cultural structures defining what it means to be 'man' or 'woman and what it means if you veer from these norms. I'm not proud of my thinking.
2) As a culture I think we are still very used to tallking about hotness in terms of the male gaze, so even if we see hot men, we assume the intended audience is men, not women. So when we see stuff that shows hot men objectifying themselves, we call it homoerotic, not hot images used for women's titilation. There is an exception to this of course - which is the images used in teenage girls magazines, or topless blokes in films aimed at teenage girls, and stuff like that. But I'm not aware of similar things explicitly aimed at, or generally labelled as such and recognised as being aimed at, adult women.
3) We are unaccustomed to seeing 2 men have an equal, close relationship that is purely platonic and not sexual. If we do see men being close friends the authors or artists usually go to great lengths to include a female love interest, to assure us that the characters are still hetero males. This image is lacking women, so when we see them Supes and Strange looking at each other in a way that was probably intended to look like they were planning and plotting the way out of their fight, we read it as sexual.
4) Relatign back to point number 1, there are the poses themselves. They don't look ready to fight, they look like they are pirouetting in mid air. They are off balance - this is an artistic tactic used to sexualise women. When it's used on 2 men who are focused on each other like Supes and Strange are, it looks like they have a sexual link.
Then there's the thing about equating femininity in men with them being gay - again, I'm not proud of my thinking.
5) Lastly, the boyfriend thinks Adam Strange is particularly camp. I'm not so sure of that one, but seeing as when I showed it to him and asked his opinion of it, he immediately yelled gay, I thought it was worth including.
In conclusion, I think that 1), my base reactions show I'm not as lliberated as I thought, and 2), regardless of the liberalness of my views this cover will provide slash fodder among fan fic writers.
Well I saw that and thought it was the most homoerotic cover ever.
Why is this? Partly it's the poses - they are sticking close to each other, grinning at each other with a conspiratorial look. We can clearly see Adam Strange's arse, and you could claim that Superman's leg is poisitioned somewhat coyly. So why did I think Gay! when I saw it?
I think it is a combination of things:
1) We rarely see men's arses displayed and highlighted quite so (Green Lanterns aside). Usually women's bodies are shown off in this manner. So when I see men being positioned like women I read it as gay. Obviously this relies on cultural structures defining what it means to be 'man' or 'woman and what it means if you veer from these norms. I'm not proud of my thinking.
2) As a culture I think we are still very used to tallking about hotness in terms of the male gaze, so even if we see hot men, we assume the intended audience is men, not women. So when we see stuff that shows hot men objectifying themselves, we call it homoerotic, not hot images used for women's titilation. There is an exception to this of course - which is the images used in teenage girls magazines, or topless blokes in films aimed at teenage girls, and stuff like that. But I'm not aware of similar things explicitly aimed at, or generally labelled as such and recognised as being aimed at, adult women.
3) We are unaccustomed to seeing 2 men have an equal, close relationship that is purely platonic and not sexual. If we do see men being close friends the authors or artists usually go to great lengths to include a female love interest, to assure us that the characters are still hetero males. This image is lacking women, so when we see them Supes and Strange looking at each other in a way that was probably intended to look like they were planning and plotting the way out of their fight, we read it as sexual.
4) Relatign back to point number 1, there are the poses themselves. They don't look ready to fight, they look like they are pirouetting in mid air. They are off balance - this is an artistic tactic used to sexualise women. When it's used on 2 men who are focused on each other like Supes and Strange are, it looks like they have a sexual link.
Then there's the thing about equating femininity in men with them being gay - again, I'm not proud of my thinking.
5) Lastly, the boyfriend thinks Adam Strange is particularly camp. I'm not so sure of that one, but seeing as when I showed it to him and asked his opinion of it, he immediately yelled gay, I thought it was worth including.
In conclusion, I think that 1), my base reactions show I'm not as lliberated as I thought, and 2), regardless of the liberalness of my views this cover will provide slash fodder among fan fic writers.
Friday, June 05, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Scenes that make you go brrr
So a while ago I was bleating on about uploading some scans. I finally managed to get the content of a pdf into a jpg - it turns out to be a surprisingly simple matter of cutting and pasting into paint. So I bring you what I conisder to be the best scene out of the Final Crisis books. Yes, possibly better than Bart coming back. Because I prefer the artist on this one. So, to put it in context, I first present the preceding page, from Final Crisis: Revelations.
(click to enlarge)
It is in itself fairly nifty. But it pales when compared ot the next page. Here is the scene which still gives me chills when I look at it:
Oh my. BAD ASS POWER WALK! That page is a thing of beauty. I hereby declare Renee the coolest most bad ass person in the DC Universe.
For my next pictures I present something a bit more cuddly and cheeky. They are two pages form the Terra mini, art by Amanda Connor, and feature Power Girl and Terra getting all slashy:
Cute, very cute. And very slashy.
(click to enlarge)
It is in itself fairly nifty. But it pales when compared ot the next page. Here is the scene which still gives me chills when I look at it:
Oh my. BAD ASS POWER WALK! That page is a thing of beauty. I hereby declare Renee the coolest most bad ass person in the DC Universe.
For my next pictures I present something a bit more cuddly and cheeky. They are two pages form the Terra mini, art by Amanda Connor, and feature Power Girl and Terra getting all slashy:
Cute, very cute. And very slashy.
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