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薫秋元 - Dress Down (1986)

month of your birth:

january- cream

february- star

march- luck

arpil- danger

may- sweet

june- glitter

july- flirt

august- kink

september- hot

october- spook

november- cool  

december- slay

date of your birth

1.gun 2.babe 3.love 4.ride 5.cake 6.puff  7.girl/guy (whatever you prefer) 

8.smolder 9.steam 10.musk 11.fire 12.muffin 13.party 14.power 15.dream 

16.train 17.nude 18.suit 19.machine 20.kiss 21.shine 22.lust 23.pop 

24.bam 25.fire 26.blush 27.buff 28.song 29.job 30.crush 31.bamf

i think some of these are going to be so cool!!l 

a few of them will be silly but that’s the point!

The Rigged Slot Machine - Overwatch’s Female Character Creating Engine

Every time we criticize female sexualization in Overwatch, we’re sure to get at least a single reply along the lines of “What’s wrong with having ONE sexy assassin/pilot/etc. in the game?”, to which our answer would be “Nothing. But where’s that ONE person you’re talking about? We see a whole bunch.  Also why no male character is coded unequivocally sexy with his design and/or clothes and/or posing and/or personality?”

I figured the best way to illustrate this is a rigged slot machine, in which slot devoted to describing character design lands on “sexy” 6 out of 8 times.

All heroes in the game have unique ethnic and cultural backgrounds, backstories and personalities. Most of them look quite diverse. The problem is that for women in Overwatch, more often than not, the visual design compromises that in one way or another, in favor of making them conventionally attractive for the presumed cishet male gamer. 

It might be a single thing, it might be the whole way character looks, dresses and is animated, but most of female Overwatch heroines suffer from gratuitous sexualization and obvious double standard when compared to their male colleagues. And a single step in more varied female representation should not be glorified as massive progress when everything else remains unfixed. 

While a few of the game’s problems listed in old articles like this or this one got resolved by expanding the lineup, sadly, year and a half later a lot of them remain true.

~Ozzie

more about Overwatch on BABD

Breakdown of all the concerns we have with characters under the cut:

Lets be brutally honest here.  OP boils down all women by how they look, lumps different body types into one ‘sexy’ category and thinks that being attractive is ‘sexy’ and thus shameful.

me: