Escher Girls

Float like a butterfly, sting like a WTF?

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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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card art from Magic Knight Armageddon mobile game that depicts an anime girl with purple eyes in a purple and white bikini with a gun for her arm, she is standing in a boobs and butt pose with her butt facing the audience and her torso turned to show her breastsALT

Boobs and butt pose aside, I kinda like how her outfit looks like she murdered Frieza from Dragon Ball and made clothes (and random belts) out of him. xD 

Somehow, her pose is still less painful looking than the sexy Spartan from the same game that’s been on this blog before.  

(Art from Magic Knight Armageddon, DeNA Japan & VNG Corp., submitted by anon)

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 forwardALT

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)

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splash page from Teen Titans vol. #4 28 showing Wonder Girl fighting a mob of enemies and throwing a lasso around one, she is standing in a boobs and butt pose with her legs spread and her butt thrust back, an insert panel shows her tied up by the lasso with a surprised O lip shape on her face and wide eyes looking down like she's turned onALT
crop of splash page from Teen Titans vol. #4 28 showing Wonder Girl fighting a mob of enemies and throwing a lasso around one, she is standing in a boobs and butt pose with her legs spread and her butt thrust back, her red bodysuit hugs her buttcheeks separately, and one leg and butt is pushed far backALT
panel from Teen Titans vol. #4 28 showing Wonder Girl tied up by the laso which breaks the armor on one of her breasts, she has wide heavily eyelinered eyes looking down with an O pout on her lips, she says "My lasso?" while thinking "Always wondered if it would drain my own life. My silent armor seems to be protecting me, but for how long?" she looks turned on by itALT

Cassie showing off the boobs and butt pose and then seeming VERY enthusiastic about finding out if her lasso would drain her own life. >_>

(Page and panels from Teen Titans vol. 4 #28, DC Comics)

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cropped cover of NiER #1, the comic book adaptation from Wildstorm of the first game showing the title "NIER" at the top and a white haired man with a big sword holing it over his shoulder like a baseball bat, behind him is a white haired woman in a blue nightie and stocksing, she has her torso and chest tilted to our right but her butt tilted to the left showing both buttcheeks to us in a boobs and butt pose (her butt is offset to her torso almost 90 degrees to the side basically)ALT

@haveievermentioned submitted:

“Kaine from the NieR promo comics by DC/Wildstorm.  I will defend the outfit as the game  not only justifies it but genuinely ties it into her character development and backstory.  (this isn’t me being facetious, go play NieR) however… the rest of it is just so off.  Including the face.  Kaine doesn’t ever even get CLOSE to that kind of expression.”

This is what happens when you’re setting up your display of battle lingerie because corporate says the next big thing is sexy barbarian chic, but also you can’t quite get the legs and butt to fit together with the top of the mannequin and you’re like, whatever, it’s my last day anyway, and it’s almost closing…

(Cover of NiER #1, Wildstorm Productions & DC Comics)

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eschergirls:

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I was looking through old UK gaming magazines with friends trying to source something, and I ran into this cover which… is something.  Also I think history class misled me about the Magna Carta.  Clearly it was a charter of rights for breasts to be free of their hosts. xD

Anyway, with the art and the game title “Magna Carta” and the magazine title, I figure there’s a lot to work from here for a caption contest, so let’s have one!

Caption the image.  What’s happening? What are they doing?  You can include the text in your caption to make a joke or whatever if you want to play on it, but you don’t have to.

Submit your captions here using reblog or reply, by email at eschergirls@gmail.com or on the main site using Disqus comments.

I’ll pick the best/funniest captions for winners in two weeks!

Winners can get a choice of prizes if they want, but you don’t need to accept a prize to participate if you just want to participate for fun!

Good luck everybody!

(Cover of PLAY magazine vol. 45, Sept. 2005)

Reminder that the April caption contest is still going and will run for another week until Friday!

Winners will be announced on Sunday, so get your captions in if you want to participate!

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 backALT
ad for real life 18cm fetish heels where the toes are en pointe like a ballet shoe and are supposed with spike stilettosALT

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).
To WAR. She’s going to WAR. In THOSE.“

Nothing wrong with fetish shoes. PROBABLY not a good idea to wear them in war though, but what do I know? I don’t exist in the post-apocalyptic space war universe.  Maybe one needs to stand on their tippy-toes to see the entire battlefield.  Maybe having hooves commands respect.  Maybe the soldiers are better motivated knowing that their commanders are suffering as much as they are standing in those things.

Maybe my brain is just melting.  That happens too when I stare at my inbox too long.

(Cover of Warhammer 40,000 - Codex: Sisters of Battle, Games Workshop)

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the final page of a review of Burning Ranger from Sega Saturn UK Magazine that says "And finally Tillis.  Burning Ranger: Raunch Factor 10" showing an illustration of a red haired anime girl leaning forward with her breasts in a tight red catsuit pushed toward the camera.  The text is about how horny their editor is for her and how he has pictures of her on his computer.  The screenshots are of her blocky Sega Saturn form.ALT
closeup of the text of Sega Saturn UK Magazine review of Burning Ranger that describes how horny the writers and editor is for the character of Tillis and how the editor has pictures of her that he looks at on his computer and also how ugly they find other video game women before her like Amy Rose from Sonic and how Claris from NiGHTS is hot but they can't legally say so because she's underage.  Full text in post.ALT

This was shown to me by somebody on Discord and this is apparently part of a review of the game?  And… what… just… what… Everything about this is so cringe.  Like, why even mention Claris just to imply that they would admit to lusting over her if she was of legal age?  That’s so creepy, even as a joke. 

And everything about Tillis is just so weird.  Like they call her a cool and strong female lead, but then there’s that weird tangent about how hot she is that their Art Editor is drooling over her and just… why… why anything. xD  90s gaming mags were certainly something…

Also, the internet would very much prove this writer wrong about people not being hot and bothered for Amy Rose >_>

As for the picture itself, all I can think of is “We have Asuka Evangelion at home.”

(Review of Burning Rangers from Sega Saturn Magazine #31)

Transcript of text:

Burning Ranger: Raunch Factor 10
It’s about time that the Sonic Team produced a strong female lead for one of their games. After all, no-one’s really got all hot and bothered about Amy Rose from the Sonic games (insert your own hedgehog-based “prick” gag here). And as for the “budding” 15 year-old Claris in NiGHTS… well, we’re not saying anything. Not until we’ve cleared it thoroughly with our legal people.
The advent of Burning Rangers brings an end to this sad, sordid tale. Tillis is cool. In fact, our very own Art Editor, Mr McEvoy has this very image on his desktop at work. When we think he’s staring at his latest layout for the mag, he’s actually drooling feverishly at the picture you’re looking at on this page. The words “pervert” and “colossal” spring to mind…

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cover of Astonishing X-Men Vol. 4 #1, Unknown Comics variant, showing Magik (blonde woman in the X-Men yellow and black jumpsuit) with a metal arm holding a sword over her head, her butt is tilted at the audience viewpoint so both her buttcheeks are visible while her back is arched 90 degrees so her butt is thrusting back and her chest is facing the audienceALT

I thought this looked familiar.  Apparently it’s a modern redux of an old Marvel trading card of Magik (a literal Magik card for those that like puns >_>)

It doesn’t look much better cleaned up, and if anything the weirdness of the entire pose is just more visible.  She looks like a centaur angry that you stole her front legs.

(Unknown Comics cover of Astonishing X-Men vol 4 #1, Marvel Comics, submitted by anonymous)

Panel from Eletrka vol. 1 #4 showing Elektra defending a blonde girl in a green sleeveless tank top from men surrounding her who are apparently Ukrainian pimps, Elektra is standing facing the audience with her arms out and the girl behind her, her butt is thrust back with her legs forward and one bending below her crotch, her calves are vertical to her knee, so she's basically sitting in an invisible chair, or sliding and about to fall down, the dialogue boxes are about the danger & also her hairALT
close up of Elektra defending a blonde girl in a green sleeveless tank top from men surrounding her who are apparently Ukrainian pimps, the dialogue box says "A young girl, scared witless relying on Elektra to get her out of the hole she's in... and my hair's probably gone frizzy too, she thinks."ALT

Is Elektra supposed to be like… skateboarding on ice or something?  What is going on with her legs?

Also, that dialogue is very “men writing women”.

(Page from Elektra vol. 1 #4, Marvel Comics, submitted by anonymous)

Transcript of text boxes:

A whole bunch of Ukrainian pimps armed to the teeth with ex-KGB hardware…

A few home grown allies with customized glocks and berettas…

A young girl, scared witless relying on Elektra to get her out of the hole she’s in…

And my hair’s probably gone frizzy, too, she thinks.

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a probably AI generated ad from Lyssa: Goddess of Rage/Lyssa: Goddess of LOVE (which is what this ad says) with the character name "Mrs. Headshot" above a blonde woman wearing a Nazi SS style outfit that clings to her body and she is raising one leg up in a kick style with knee bent, her thigh seems kind if detached from her hipALT

So apparently Lyssa: Goddess of Rage, that game that probably uses AI generated art, has rebranded itself to “Lyssa: Goddess of LOVE”?  And that apparently just means taking the exact same picture from the Cammy from Wish ad and turning it into a vacuum-sealed latex Nazi woman???

Also, apparently if you look for Saints Row videos on YouTube, their wise and all-knowing algorithm thinks that means you want AI-generated Nazi waifus. -_o This future sucks.

(Ad for Lyssa: Goddess of LOVE, Panoramik Games)