Needs Help: Fairy Sexy

The pic on Fairy Sexy was recently changed without a thread. The old pic wasn't very good, but the new pic is a pixiv illustration that we may need to get permission for. Old vs. new, respectively.

EDIT: The pixiv page is in Japanese, so someone will need to translate to address the permission issue.

edited 13th Jan '13 1:35:50 PM by Willbyr

If permission is granted, I like the new image. If not, the old one is fine.

It's much better. Also, licensing is in English.

All image data posted on this service are the copyright of the user who created the images.

However, the image has no copyright mark...

For those people not maniacal about reading every single post made in the Wiki & Forums section: Here is the original reason for the thread.

I like the new one more. We should get permission for it.

The bluehaired fairy looks like an Innocent Fanservice Girl, not sexy.

In the context of Innocent Fanservice Girl, fanservice means sexy...

A character doesn't have to be seductive to be sexy.

Innocent fanservice girls are sexy.

I think this◊ would be better.

With that visible cleavage, I don't think it's acceptable...

This is the source, by the way, so again, we need permission for it.

edited 13th Jan '13 6:48:55 PM by videogmer314

I prefer the new pic to that one, honestly. There are some artists linked on the page, but I doubt we'd be able to get permission to use their works, especially the one that's selling all of them as prints.

^^^ That bar seems really low. Can you elaborate?

I think the current one is the best of the suggested, though the others aren't really bad either.

I don't see how it's not acceptable.

Yeah I think of unacceptable as, like, bare nipples. A somewhat low neckline isn't going to scandalize very many grandmothers.

Alrighty, maybe I was being a tad hasty with that earlier post. If it's alright with everyone, then I won't raise any further fuss with it.

That said, I prefer the current page image.

Current is best.

Actually, at a second glance I think I prefer lexicon's suggestion on the grounds that the anatomy is better.

We vote for the current image... For rather obvious reasons. (We choose the image after all)

I dislike the replacement. Tropes about a character being attractive are supposed to be in-universe as a general rule, yeah? I mean sexy fairy is not in and of itself a trope :\ So the picture should make it clear that sexiness is part of the fairy's character and be evident through body-language, expression, etc (other characters reacting to the fair would be ideal).

She is wearing a translucent teddy. Lingerie pretty much means "supposed to look sexy" don't you think?

^ I did not even notice it was transparent until you said so. She looks like a generic fairy to me, if a little on the creepy side.

These sorts of tropes are a magnet for pile of "X type of thing I found attractive" misuse, I thing we really ought to be careful about choosing a picture that is not going to add to that.

I don't think the fact that the fairy may also be subjectively sexy (in addition to being an objectively "sexy fairy") should be a strike against it. Bad examples of anything will show up, and should be removed.

She is more overtly supposed to be hot than Disney!Tinkerbell is, I think. And both are hot women with wings... not all fairies are.

edited 14th Jan '13 1:24:51 PM by rodneyAnonymous

That's really overthinking it. We don't need an image where everyone fawns over the character to state the in-universe part—the image barely does anything for these cases of misuse. A % note works better.

She's pretty obviously supposed to be pretty attractive and seductive. No one is fawning over the Evil Is Sexy pic, but she looks like a seductive Woman In Black and can't possibly give the wrong impression.