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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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
It's not synonym, cult means that the "correct" way to write it is "criatura". Is in the index because the RAE acknowledge that "creatuta" exists as a word.
cult. just means "creatura" is closer to Latin creatūra. Also, as far as I know, the RAE doesn't list any misspellings. I'd take them acknowledging it exists as a word to be enough for it to count as "proper" Spanish.
I didn't say is a misspelling. There's a reason why the RAE page have all the definitions and synonyms in the "criatura" page (that dosen't include "creatura") while "creatura" only links to the correct spelling "criatura".
So many words in the RAE dictionary that nobody uses anymore. But in this case, the form "creatura" is just weird. The conventional way is "criatura" for, basically, all Spanish speaking countries in XXI century.
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Donkter@lemmy.world · 143 pts · 137d
I think this person's point was lost when they drew the creatures to be very cute as well.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 43 pts · 137d
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.
Venat0r@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 136d
Do you have a good example?
Closest i could find was this one:
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 135d
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).
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 136d
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.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 136d
I like the ones with lots of teeth and biting.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 135d
Meanwhile, I'm over here encouraging this behaviour like:
Anivia@feddit.org · 1 pts · 135d
And made them have bad fashion sense, haircuts and body language. Looking good isn't just about genetics
Mac@mander.xyz · -6 pts · 136d
The artist draws themself and they're allowed to judge their own looks however they want,
Even if we would disagree with them.
gmtom@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 136d
You're missing the point the comment was making
Mac@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 136d
How? The comment is saying they're cute, the artist is saying they aren't.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 135d
No, the comment is saying they are drawn cute, when the whole point of the artists comic is that they look like a goblin when they don't.
Mac@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 135d
Ah, i see. It's not that I'm missing the point of the other comment—no, you're missing the point of mine.
Mothra@mander.xyz · 49 pts · 137d
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.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 65 pts · 137d
I think they just turned Spanish for some reason.
Mothra@mander.xyz · 42 pts · 137d
So it's trans for translated?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 136d
Si
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 135d
"If"?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 135d
i literally can't see dots that small to tell if i got an accent or not
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 136d
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 137d
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.
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 137d
Ready Player One.
SuperPengato@scribe.disroot.org · 2 pts · 136d
Shrek
Allero@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 137d
Trans folks are really bad at being unattractive!
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 135d
"youre pretty? skill issue."
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 136d
https://youtu.be/CXYlv-z_xHQ
FLP22012005@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 136d
It's a DLSS 5 meme.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 136d
So, you became cute AND spanish?
MrLLM@ani.social · 6 pts · 136d
Been to Spain and I thought most young pp were good looking
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 136d
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.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 135d
Young pp is the best pp.
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 137d
I want to marry la creatura.
wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org · 4 pts · 137d
If I'm not confusing it with another comic they are already married
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 136d
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.
wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org · 3 pts · 136d
Gotcha, that makes sense I guess but I wouldn't generalise it that far
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 136d
All of them are attractive, it's just a lot of people think attractive = conventionally attractive.
Mac@mander.xyz · 15 pts · 136d
The artist is actually so cute though
Our self image has been destroyed by social media under capitalism.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 136d
"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.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 5 pts · 136d
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.
angrystego@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 136d
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 13 pts · 136d
IMO the creatures are cuter. 🤷♂️
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 137d
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.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 136d
I think the bottom is probably what my transition will look like, except more kitty :3
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 135d
:3
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 136d
Pero me gusta La Criatura. ¡Es graciosa!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 136d
Yo tambien. No necesitas lucir bien para ser buena.
pelya@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 137d
Is this a blazer hoodie?
Bruhh@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 135d
You're not attractive to yourself. You aren't your type but you are someone else's type.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 135d
speak for yourself. https://youtu.be/VCHhLX0_Fl8?t=25
MissingInteger@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 136d
La Creature by Azul Crescent (link to the source)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 136d
Hey Beep, are you Azul? because if so i like your art!
Beep@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 136d
No bro.
I just liked the comic, so I shared it here.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 136d
aww i got banned from reddit for
posting luigisthe 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
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 136d
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · -3 pts · 136d
It's "criatura" If you are trying to write it in Spanish
ccf@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 136d
La Real academia española lists "creatura" as a synonym of criatura
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 2 pts · 136d
It's not synonym, cult means that the "correct" way to write it is "criatura". Is in the index because the RAE acknowledge that "creatuta" exists as a word.
ccf@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 136d
cult. just means "creatura" is closer to Latin creatūra. Also, as far as I know, the RAE doesn't list any misspellings. I'd take them acknowledging it exists as a word to be enough for it to count as "proper" Spanish.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 2 pts · 136d
I didn't say is a misspelling. There's a reason why the RAE page have all the definitions and synonyms in the "criatura" page (that dosen't include "creatura") while "creatura" only links to the correct spelling "criatura".
selokichtli@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 135d
So many words in the RAE dictionary that nobody uses anymore. But in this case, the form "creatura" is just weird. The conventional way is "criatura" for, basically, all Spanish speaking countries in XXI century.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 136d
There may be a specific reason she writes it that way. For example, to reference creación. Don't be so hasty.