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Tollymain posted:i suspect its vaguely similar what happened to uh whatever the name of the fantasy subgenre was w the telepathic hawks and horses and poo poo and also incidentally a tolerance of gay people Romantic fantasy, also known as "the Mercedes Lackey genre."
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 02:31 |
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A fair number of transformation comics seemed less concerned with exploring gender identity and more concerned with getting off on the idea of non-consensual transformation.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 02:40 |
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neogeo0823 posted:And as for The Sisters, get your boss fight music playing, because uh... Yeah this is good poo poo. Updated today, too.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 02:55 |
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TheHan posted:A fair number of transformation comics seemed less concerned with exploring gender identity and more concerned with getting off on the idea of non-consensual transformation. Which wouldn't explain why there's any less of em now I wonder if fetishes go through fad boom-and-bust cycles
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 03:29 |
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"Feet? Bitch please, that's some 90s poo poo, I'm into nullo now. Honestly not sure where I go after this."
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 03:33 |
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Bowsette is where all of those urges went.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 03:38 |
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Which wouldn't explain why there's any less of em now I've always assumed it's from consuming the same media as kids. Like all these guys saw Ranma 1/2 one afternoon and went "Oh gently caress" in synchronicity.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 03:44 |
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All the ones I remember seem like they're still plugging away. The Wotch, SGVY, Misfile looks the same as ever, although from the look of it, maybe it's set to do a finale or something. It's disappointing to come back to something after so long and see so little's changed. One of the fun parts of reading through a webcomic is seeing things change and develop over time. EGS has at least managed to have some kind of development in the last few years, even though I'm not caught up on it. Technically Zebra Girl was in that same theme of transformation webcomic, and it managed to both change and come to a conclusion. Dang, apparently No Need For Bushido ended just a few months ago. And Freefall spent a couple weeks setting up a Three Stooges joke.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 04:23 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:spent a couple weeks setting up a Three Stooges joke.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 05:06 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:All the ones I remember seem like they're still plugging away. The Wotch, SGVY, Misfile looks the same as ever, although from the look of it, maybe it's set to do a finale or something. Holy poo poo I haven't thought about Misfile in years, goddamn I feel old. ...oh hey look at that the dude finally stopped using comic sans for his comic, wild times we're living in.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 05:12 |
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Which wouldn't explain why there's any less of em now Probably just moved on to straightforward porn for the most part. Now people who would have drawn a comic with heavy fetishist subtext are just drawing port with the fetishes front-and-center. Generally speaking the culture of the internet has become more open about sexuality and kinks and there's less of a need to hide behind a paper-thin pretext of legitimate storytelling and instead you can just open up a patreon for folks who want to pay you to draw them turning into a squirrel with dicks for eyes.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 05:18 |
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PMush Perfect posted:Fantasy Digimon. The closest I've seen something blend those two properties has been Monster Pulse. For a long while I've been looking for someone to do something that's basically "Digimon Frontier, but not garbage" and that's like right at the center of that venn diagram.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 06:11 |
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nine-gear crow posted:The closest I've seen something blend those two properties has been Monster Pulse. For a long while I've been looking for someone to do something that's basically "Digimon Frontier, but not garbage" and that's like right at the center of that venn diagram. uh, any reason you're not counting digimon tamers, aka the only one that's actually good?
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 06:12 |
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A big flaming stink posted:uh, any reason you're not counting digimon tamers, aka the only one that's actually good? Because Monster Pulse pretty much is Digimon Tamers, only with body parts instead of Digimon. So that itch has been scratched already
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 06:15 |
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Tollymain posted:i suspect its vaguely similar what happened to uh whatever the name of the fantasy subgenre was w the telepathic hawks and horses and poo poo and also incidentally a tolerance of gay people tamora pierce gets poo poo on so hard by nerds but her books were like manna from heaven to me when i was a kid
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 07:48 |
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TwoPair posted:Holy poo poo I haven't thought about Misfile in years, goddamn I feel old. did his art get any better?
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 08:24 |
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Dabir posted:did his art get any better? I’ve never heard of this comic before but from a brief glance at one of its more recent pages, Imma say, uuuh... No.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 09:48 |
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PMush Perfect posted:That sounds horrendously, torturously slow.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 12:10 |
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They’re finally in space, tho, after spending literal years prepping for it.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 13:12 |
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nine-gear crow posted:I’ve never heard of this comic before but from a brief glance at one of its more recent pages, Imma say, uuuh... No. Yeah, that is just about 100% how he was when he started. It's a little amazing he hasn't progressed artistically just by the fact he's been drawing for years. I see he's also still got that problem of drawing people in complete profile (which admittedly a lot of webcomic artists have). I wonder if the folks would have been making gender-bender webcomics instead just have Patreon now and cut out the middle man of actually trying to comic.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 13:41 |
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Misfile's artist is one of those people that settled into a groove and has never really progressed out of it, more or less like Deegan but with a more kind of rapid-production manga look than whatever the gently caress Deegan is. Misfile has never shown any inclination to change or develop, just perfect churning out that same look with more regularity and efficiency. It's a demonstration of the fact that simply doing something over and over doesn't inherently make you better at it, it just trains you to do that thing consistently, so drawing for ten years won't make you a good artist unless you actually strive to critique and improve your work in that time. I seem to recall that Misfile's artist was actually pretty good with drawing cars but then it kind of gave up being a racing comic in favor of it's weird cosmology. Edit: It's kind of amusing to see artists lock in like this when even Rich Burlew has managed to develop goofy stick-figure art in a number of ways over the years.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 15:07 |
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nankeen posted:i was thinking about this the other day lol Who in the hell has been poo poo talking Pierce? I will fight them. Like, the books aren't perfect but... they're very good and deserve support. They're also surprisingly intense, looking back. (My favorites were definitely the Circle of Magic series and Protector of the Small, followed closely by Wild Magic.) I once got to have lunch with Pierce as part of a college convention I was volunteering at, she was very chill and quite interesting to chat with. E: the Circle Opens quartet is basically 'magical teenagers vs. magical serial killers' as a general framework for talking about these characters being thrust into dealing with the wider world. Romantic Fantasy didn't mean it couldn't involve jaw-dropping violence at times. Joe Slowboat fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:Misfile looks the same as ever, although from the look of it, maybe it's set to do a finale or something. That's still going? What the gently caress.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 15:28 |
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Ague Proof posted:That's still going? What the gently caress.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 16:01 |
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Ague Proof posted:That's still going? What the gently caress. It's actually finally winding up for a conclusion (which is pretty amazing) but the artist also has plans for a follow up story set in the same world, so....
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 16:44 |
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The weirdest thing about Misfile to me remains that the dude somehow managed to have a succesful kickstarter to film a live action adaptation of the comic. Not only did people pay for it, but he actually managed to cast and film it and get the whole thing done. I mean, from the trailer it looks as bad as you might expect, but it's still pretty amazing that it actually happened.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 16:57 |
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I don't know what Misfile is but from 30 seconds of looking at it I'm gonna guess the creator really, really likes Tenchi Muyo
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 17:27 |
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Ashcans posted:The weirdest thing about Misfile to me remains that the dude somehow managed to have a succesful kickstarter to film a live action adaptation of the comic. Not only did people pay for it, but he actually managed to cast and film it and get the whole thing done. I mean, from the trailer it looks as bad as you might expect, but it's still pretty amazing that it actually happened.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 17:45 |
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"Never make a wish using google translate"
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 17:50 |
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Haha I didn't even realize it was a Three Stooges thing. Partly cause they're not as big a thing in Europe, partly because it goes so slow I just didn't notice it.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 18:19 |
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Joe Slowboat posted:Who in the hell has been poo poo talking Pierce? I will fight them. Like, the books aren't perfect but... they're very good and deserve support. They're also surprisingly intense, looking back. (My favorites were definitely the Circle of Magic series and Protector of the Small, followed closely by Wild Magic.) Tamora is still putting out diverse YA books, and has done some more sequels to the Circle of Magic series. She's not on social media enough to have said anything cancel-worthy, as far as I know. The White Tiger miniseries she did for Marvel a number of years back wasn't great but it wasn't remarkable either. I was kind of weirded out by the end of the Wild Magic series where Daine fell in love with her teacher (being about the same age as that character when I read it ) but Robin McKinley is way worse and more pervasive with that crap. Maybe Avs is mixing her up with Mercedes Lackey and the weird hill she decided to die on about trans chracters in her books? Or the Anne McCaffrey gay tentpole rape incident?
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Nuns with Guns posted:Tamora is still putting out diverse YA books, and has done some more sequels to the Circle of Magic series. She's not on social media enough to have said anything cancel-worthy, as far as I know. The White Tiger miniseries she did for Marvel a number of years back wasn't great but it wasn't remarkable either. I was kind of weirded out by the end of the Wild Magic series where Daine fell in love with her teacher (being about the same age as that character when I read it ) but Robin McKinley is way worse and more pervasive with that crap. I know about the McCaffrey ... issues... which are multiple. I wasn't aware of the Mercedes Lackey thing, and am now morbidly curious (I read the Black Griffon trilogy and her ancient egyptian-ish dragon rider books, and something about evil elves who rule a parallel universe where they almost made dragons extinct, but that's about it? I never really got into Valdemar.) Now I need to check out Circle of Magic if it's gone past Will of the Empress, because I can always use more domestic fantasy and serial killers in a vaguely Mediterranean setting imo.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 21:08 |
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Joe Slowboat posted:Who in the hell has been poo poo talking Pierce? I don't know but I bet it's younger dudes getting mad about media not targeted at them.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 21:17 |
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fritz posted:I don't know but I bet it's younger dudes getting mad about media not targeted at them. Frankly, as a dude who read that while young, they're idiots. I realize I'm not, like, the core audience for Circle of Magic, but those books are both extremely charming and have some awesome magical violence interspersed with learning how to trim magical bonsai trees and characters finding out they have super cool blacksmith powers. And the bookish nerd gets to be a weather-based WMD! e: obviously the action sequences are not the main point of the books, but honestly Tamora Pierce's YA books don't lack in terms of heroic wizard battles, so it's bewildering to me that the average young dude who wants fighty stories would be put off by them.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 21:22 |
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QC has been weirdly horny recently.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 23:37 |
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PMush Perfect posted:QC has been weirdly horny recently. It’s slow crawl to having all its robots gently caress is pretty obvious.
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# ? Aug 3, 2019 00:20 |
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did faye gently caress the buff robot yet?
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# ? Aug 3, 2019 00:28 |
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A big flaming stink posted:did faye gently caress the buff robot yet? Yes, repeatedly.
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# ? Aug 3, 2019 00:29 |
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all science fiction is horny
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if you think its not horny, you just dont know what its horny for
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