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Jun. 1st, 2009 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreI forgot to mention.
The absolute best bit of the con was when I was flipping through an artist's binder in the artist alley and came across this one Death Note pic*. It had Light in a trenchcoat bending over L. L was naked and half buried under human skulls, and Light was pulling him by chains. There was a postit attached saying "this is not yaoi, it's symbolic, think about their relationship" and then explaining the symbolism.
Which, you know, I totally get, and I'm sure many an artist has gone "uhm, no, this picture does not mean what you think it means," but do we really think anyone who bought it cared about that?
*Ok, no, that was the wee Inu Yasha in the Inu Yasha family who ran up and asked to see the picture after I took the family's picture. That, or the Steampunk Baby in the steampunk baby stroller. (Steampunk Mommy was undergoing makeup repairs, so no pic of that is forthcoming, as I wasn't about to say "Can I take a picture of your infant?)
The absolute best bit of the con was when I was flipping through an artist's binder in the artist alley and came across this one Death Note pic*. It had Light in a trenchcoat bending over L. L was naked and half buried under human skulls, and Light was pulling him by chains. There was a postit attached saying "this is not yaoi, it's symbolic, think about their relationship" and then explaining the symbolism.
Which, you know, I totally get, and I'm sure many an artist has gone "uhm, no, this picture does not mean what you think it means," but do we really think anyone who bought it cared about that?
*Ok, no, that was the wee Inu Yasha in the Inu Yasha family who ran up and asked to see the picture after I took the family's picture. That, or the Steampunk Baby in the steampunk baby stroller. (Steampunk Mommy was undergoing makeup repairs, so no pic of that is forthcoming, as I wasn't about to say "Can I take a picture of your infant?)