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PSA: My kind of Supergirl

As we are posting girl-wonder auction items for preview, I can bring to your attention this art by Renato Guedes.  Even if you don't have the $70 to bid on it, take a look at it.  Remember how Supergirl looked like a vaguely insectoid rendition of a Bratz doll for a while?  Here's a girl you'd want to have pulling you out of a burning building.  It makes me want to read the book.  I just look at it and *siiiiiiiigh* with happiness.

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Things to think about other than election results

Why I will always love fandom more than I am frustrated by it.

The idea of cutting up books makes me go "Aaaa! Aaaa!" and flail my arms, but these are totally awesome, despite.

Enough internet games to shake a stick at.

Webcomics! Webcomics! Webcomics!

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Girl-Wonder update

Hey, people, remember this post? (If you don't remember, blah blah blah, redrawing sexualized women as men.) Answered beyond my wildest imaginings, and I think y'all should take a look at the image gallery, here. Guaranteed to make you say, "My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!" at least once.

If you're one of the artists who contributed art, let me know if I need to make any changes, use a different name, retitle your whatsit, include a link to your alma matter, etc.

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Betty tries to get the internet to do her homework.

One of the interesting things produced by the Girl-Wonder.org forums is some artwork produced by people trying to illustrate the exactly how and why female comic characters are illustrated differently than the male. We're not just talking about the costumes, although it's a good start. We're talking about the poses, the blocking, the anatomy, the whole shebang.

So, I want to offer to host artwork people make where a male is put into a female pose, and I'm looking for female references. You know, the one you look and go, "bzuh?" The one that never would have got drawn if it were male. (ETA: for genderswapping purposes, so bad boobs will only work up to a point) My old favourite of this is this picture of Jade discussing her sexual abuse. But I know there's worse out there. Do people have any off the top of their heads?

Edit: Perusal of s_d's "boobs don't work that way" tag gives me this, this and this and oh dear god, this, if someone replicated this with a man I think the chiropractor-tasticness of it would be inescapable, oh god how could I have forgotten this, this entire post...