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[–] 135 points 7 months ago (11 children)

I think this person's point was lost when they drew the creatures to be very cute as well.

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  • [–] 42 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Do you have a good example?

    Closest i could find was this one:

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] -5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    The artist draws themself and they're allowed to judge their own looks however they want,
    Even if we would disagree with them.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    You're missing the point the comment was making

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    How? The comment is saying they're cute, the artist is saying they aren't.

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  • [–] 46 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 64 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I think they just turned Spanish for some reason.

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  • [–] 41 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    So it's trans for translated?

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    So, you became cute AND spanish?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Been to Spain and I thought most young pp were good looking

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago

    I want to marry la creatura.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    All of them are attractive, it's just a lot of people think attractive = conventionally attractive.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The artist is actually so cute though

    Our self image has been destroyed by social media under capitalism.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    "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.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    IMO the creatures are cuter. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think the bottom is probably what my transition will look like, except more kitty :3

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Pero me gusta La Criatura. ¡Es graciosa!

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Is this a blazer hoodie?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Hey Beep, are you Azul? because if so i like your art!

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    You're not attractive to yourself. You aren't your type but you are someone else's type.

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    It's "criatura" If you are trying to write it in Spanish

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    La Real academia española lists "creatura" as a synonym of criatura

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    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".

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