Escher Girls

Float like a butterfly, Sting like a WTF?

A blog to archive and showcase the prevalence of certain ways women are depicted in illustrated pop media, such as how women are posed, drawn, distorted, and/or sexualized out of context, often in ridiculous ways that sacrifice storytelling.

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cover of "Penny for your Soul: Pestilence #6" comic book from Big Dog Ink showing a white woman with long blonde hair and a halo and golden energy wings like an angel, she is in a blue and white bikini top and bottom with stockings on, her legs are spread forward and back and bent at the knees, her stomch is extremely plasticine and stretched so her chest is thrust forward

TFW Your Entire Torso is Imploding

Pictured: an unhappy angel getting indigestion from apparently swallowing an entire black hole.

(Cover of Penny for your Soul: Pestilence #6, Big Dog Ink, submitted by anonymous)

cover of "Codes: Sisters of Battle" from Warhammer 40,000 showing a white haired woman holding a sword in a military outfit standing with one leg raised, she's wearing boots that are pointed straight down from her ankle (not pointed curved like a high heel, but straight down) so she's standing on the tips of her toes with a high heel at the back

Getting To The Pointe

madfishmonger submitted:

"File this under "The artist's barely disguised fetish"

It took me a minute to realize, but she's supposed to be wearing this style of fetish shoe (ballet heels).