Down with this sort of thing?: Fetish Retardant

Is it safe for work? Or does it just fit in with the trope?

Always hiding my keys in the bug bucket, you bastard dog.

Didn't there used to be a better example? I could've sworn the current one had been switched. A quick dive in the history isn't finding it, so I'll go ahead and suggest replacing it with a better example(something like this◊).

edited 14th Aug '11 5:36:58 PM by BioTube

I don't think we could use that one because of the watermark at the bottom. I don't have a problem with the current pic.

EDIT: Now, that being said, there are some options we could go with. There's panels 2 and 3, or just 2, from this Penny Arcade strip, panels 2 and 3 from this El Goonish Shive strip, or panel 7 from this EGS strip.

edited 14th Aug '11 5:54:45 PM by Willbyr

That's why I said "something like"(okay, I'd already suggested it before I noticed the copyright notice and don't like being an Orwellian Editor). The current image isn't exactly that bad(the fact that the caption's complaining about the pupils makes it seem like Minor Flaw, Major Breakup).

I pulled it.

Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty

Ugh those eyes... seriously how did the artist think that was remotely not Gonk is beyond me...

Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!

Hmm... this Cracked article has a poster of some woman screwing Ugly!Hitler(AIDS campaign) - does that cross a line?

And the pulled pic, for reference:

Anybody have a good count on how many times we've pulled that image?

Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty

I am not sure this trope is picturable due to, well...you know the internet rules. Everything is somebody's fetish.

Nous restons ici.

And a reaction pic would just look like Squick or "No. Just… No" Reaction. I'm voting unpicturable.

Eddie, I think it's up to five.

Fight smart, not fair.

So who's adding it back, then?

EDIT: Looks like a guy going by pimpdaddy. I'd make a joke about the name and the trope if I weren't too sleep-deprived to do it well.

edited 14th Aug '11 11:35:17 PM by INUH

Infinite Tree: an experimental story

I could've sworn we had a thread about this already, but I couldn't find a link when I searched.

Check the webcomics I suggested above...they're about the only way we can safely address this.

I played with the Penny Arcade one(last two panels), but I couldn't get the text to look that good once I'd scaled it down.

That one could work with just the middle panel, or 2 and 3 stacked...is it too big if it's done that way?

What's wrong with the pulled one? Er, well, there's a lot of stuff that's wrong with it, but what makes it a bad page image?

This implies, quite correctly, that my mind is dark and damp and full of tiny translucent fish.

Lacking (filled-in)pupils isn't that strong a Fetish Retardant.

His hand from the second goes into the third - I don't think we can stack them without it looking weird.

Eh, just edit it so the hand vanishes behind the panel border.

I can take a shot at editing the Penny Arcade one.

Fight smart, not fair.

How's this?

Excellent. "Oh god, why would you tell me that?"

Fight smart, not fair.

Isn't that more Nightmare Fetishist?

This implies, quite correctly, that my mind is dark and damp and full of tiny translucent fish.

The problem is it is simultaneously illustrating the trope and its exact opposite.

Nous restons ici.

Nope. This trope is about something being set up to be sexy, but (intentionally or not) failing. A Chlk'tar hive maiden scuttling out of her mottled carapace doesn't sound very hot in the first place.

edited 16th Aug '11 3:33:53 AM by ArtisticPlatypus

This implies, quite correctly, that my mind is dark and damp and full of tiny translucent fish.

But the person saying it is trying to set it up that way.

Fight smart, not fair.