Does Not Illustrate: You Sexy Beast

I like 19 as well. I think his torn clothing and lack of shoes does hint at a transformation. It also wins at funny.

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I think 13.1 > 19 > all others.

I must be cruel, but to be kind That bad may begin, and worse be left behind

As much as I like 19, I'm gonna throw two more into the mix: 1◊, 2◊. 1 is really nice because it's from Stephen King's Cycle Of The Werewolf, and something we can pothole to a work page is always a good thing.

edited 9th May '13 8:26:15 PM by Willbyr

It's not obvious she likes it in 28.1.

We have a lot of good ones...we might need a crowner.

...and 28.2 seems very amateurish.

Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.

I think 28.2's sketchiness makes it kind of charming, actually. But I still prefer 19 to either it or 13.1.

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13.1 works. Can someone upload 19 to a site other than dA so I can look at it easily?

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.

Why do you need an upload? Anyhow.

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dA has been malfunctioning for me as well. The Belle one is funny, but it requires a specific context of that scene.

Because trying to load deviantART pages on this computer slows down everything for several minutes and has about a 30% chance of success.

Anyway, it's a hilarious image which should certainly go in the Web Original folder, but does require more context even for those who know the story because the chibi style makes it less clear. I'm not voting in favour of it.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.

Maybe it's my Fan Myopia showing (as I have that book and know what's happening in the scene) but I have no idea how her expression could be interpreted as anything other than liking it (and even more), especially given how she's caressing the werewolf's face and isn't showing fear at all.

You know, I assumed she was scared too. If you really stare at her face, you realize that it's relaxed and blissful, but it's easy with such dramatic lighting and there being a large very toothy monster right next to her to interpret her expression as fear. Actually, if you flipped it it'd probably be more obvious, although it makes it less obvious that's a werewolf.

edited 10th May '13 6:18:22 AM by helterskelter

It does make a difference if you flip it... Odd.

edited 10th May '13 6:11:20 AM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Maybe because us Western left-to-right readers end up looking at her face (also the smooth brow that indicates a relaxed state instead of fear) and making the judgment first when it's on the left, instead of looking at scary wolfman and then following back down to her face for the assumption.

edited 10th May '13 6:20:20 AM by helterskelter

Probably. I also notice the humanoid wolf-hand faster with it flipped. I didn't really see that either, with it the other way.

edited 10th May '13 6:29:13 AM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Thanks to Lindsay Ellis and Nella's "50 Shades of Green" project, I present to you Sexy Cthulhu. [1] [2] [3]

Warning: Brain Bleach not provided

P.S.: My personal choice is for 42.1

edited 10th May '13 9:21:39 AM by peasant

Until I can look at , 39 gets my overall .

EDIT: 42.3 is alright, but I much prefer 39, both for overall quality of art and potholableness. They're all good for Image Links.

edited 10th May '13 9:46:48 AM by Willbyr

Really? I'm the complete opposite in thinking that 39 is completely inappropriate.

It can just as easily be interpreted as a struggle; with the werewolf trying to either eat her or rape her, if not both. Likewise, the werewolf looks pretty much like your regular run-of-the-mill wolf. Indeed, both (the girl is getting attacked + it's a wolf) were my initial interpretation of the pic.

The main advantage of the 42 pics is that not only is there no doubt to consensual attraction towards the "beast" (Sexy Cthulhu in these cases), there is also no confusing the situation with bestiality or her being some sort of furry (the former also being a problem with 39, for reasons explained above).

edited 10th May '13 10:00:42 AM by peasant

I'm going to ziplip before I say something very un-mod-appropriate.

Did I offend? If so, I apologise. It was not my intention; though I'll be scratching my head as to how.

No, just a moment of extreme frustration. I've set up a crowner since we've got a lot of options.

I prefer 39 as it's not a parody, it's more artistic, and it's an example. I like parodies well enough, but I prefer to use literal examples whenever possible, as most parodies set a mocking, negative tone for the article from the get-go and encourage complaining. That also appears to be a Take That!. I also utterly disagree that can be interpreted as rape. Eating her maybe, but...well, actually, maybe that's kind of a plus. A mixture of danger and sexy is kind of the point of the trope, and the focus of almost every example.

edited 10th May '13 10:55:12 AM by helterskelter

I think I like 42.1 best of anything I've seen so far, even though we seem to overuse Cthulhu for these sorts of tropes involving any generic exotic creature, mostly because of the Did You Just Verb Cthulhu snowclone family. Regardless of anything else, the Cthulhu ones should probably go on Did You Just Romance Cthulhu? Similarly, the True Blood one could work well on Kiss of the Vampire.

By the way, it says a lot that parodies of Twilght work better than Twilight itself, mostly because Movie!Edward doesn't even look like a vampire, just an albino human.

Seems to have worked okay for me. You didn't instinctually think up was on the left and down on the right, did you?

edited 10th May '13 11:28:15 AM by MorganWick

Crowner's acting up again. I definitely voted down 39 and voted up 13.1, and now it's showing me as having done precisely the opposite.

edited 10th May '13 11:15:55 AM by ShadowHog

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