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If you're browsing the site on a mobile phone like I was, you probably won't see the image of the mascot on the right-hand-side. Even if you click the "mascot"
by quicklime 6y ago
If you're browsing the site on a mobile phone like I was, you probably won't see the image of the mascot on the right-hand-side. Even if you click the "mascot" link, you'll just go to a text description of it.
The image is here: https://rubenerd.com/rubi@1x.jpg https://rubenerd.com/rubi@1x.jpg
- pmiller2 6y agoSpeaking of the mascot, I admit I was a little put off by Rubi (that's her name!) at first. But, upon further review, she's just a normal schoolgirl-looking character with mismatched socks, drawn in an anime style. She's totally SFW, so, I can only guess my negative association was initially driven by "anime girl" stereotypes. She doesn't turn me off from wanting to read any more of the author's posts, provided they have something on a topic I'm interested in.
- gowld 6y agoThe hiked up miniskirt is what takes it into less comfortable loli territory.
- pmiller2 6y agoEh. It doesn't look "hiked up" at all to me, and, truthfully, the outfits the cheer team wore at my high school show a lot more skin.
- asdasfasdfasdf 6y agoThe entire concept is loli territory, it's the fetisihization of school girls. It's not inappropriate because it's a mascot, it's inappropriate because this is the blog of a grown man with a teenage girl for a mascot. I'm totally fine with furries or NSFW art, but the school girl trope is gross and its perpetuation fetishizes underage women whether you like it or not.
- Igelau 6y agoSee, here's the bug in "I know it when I see it" benchmarks for lewdness: they only actually report on the beholder's internal reaction. You're only telling us it made you uncomfortable because your brain fetishized some part of the image.
- hitekker 6y agoHey that’s a cute drawing
- rubenerd 6y agoAw thanks, I'll let my partner know :).
- Igelau 6y agoThat was so confusing for me. I got worried that he must have pulled the shockingly inappropriate mascot. It's the socks. Those mismatched socks are clearly triggering the kinds of people who serially straighten out picture frames.
- csilverman 6y agoAnybody who takes the time to email a blog author and shriek about the (very modest) anime girl they have on their website clearly has problems. I'm starting to worry a little about the number of "people exist who do that??" moments I've had lately.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoNo, stupidity can't possibly be unexpected.