Violet Bee by Dave Warren
Shaenon: Dave Warren, creator of Selkie, sent us this image of Violet. Writes Dave:
Originally I wanted to do Unity, but it seems like you have a lot of fanarts of her as is. The recent “something wrong with my girlness” comic gave me an idea for a drawing of Violet Bee, which I went ahead and did, but I still could not resist slipping Unity in there as well.
Well, that’s understandable. Thanks, Dave!
Channing: Aw, yeah. Violet Bee fanart! That girl is sadly under-fan-arted. Thanks so much, Dave! And put in a kind word to the Conspiracy on our behalf, would you?
It occurs to me one could do topless art of Vi and not have to put a mature tag on it.
(TUNE: “Taking Care Of Business”, Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
We’re aboard St. Charlie train
Where the madmen live and reign,
It’s a mobile, mysterious city!
With my long and flowing hair
And my face so young and fair,
I am bright-eyed and witty and pretty!
But I am really a machine!
I am sneaky, low, and mean!
I’ll corrupt you and mess up your head now!
Though my tactics are confusing,
I’m an expert at seducing
And I swear I’ll get Tip into bed now!
Yeah, there’s
Nothing wrong with girlness!
Look at me!
Nothing wrong with girlness!
Violet Bee!
Nothing wrong with girlness!
Laugh at fools!
Nothing wrong with girlness!
’Cause Anasigma rules!
Oh, she said “girlness” and not “girliness”? That figures. Funny how she’s almost about to reveal her lack of nipples.
In case no one brought it up already: trying to go to http://skin-horse.com/about/, http://skin-horse.com/cast/, or http://skin-horse.com/extras/ gives the following error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_page_template_slug() in /home/shaenon/skin-horse.com/wp-includes/template.php on line 228
Incidentally, I’m having trouble with the extra pages on the site right now (Cast, About, etc.). Hoping to get them fixed soon.
It occurs to me that Violet Bee may be confusing girl-ness with female-parts, thus providing part of that subtle ‘not an option’ that Tip is responding/not responding to.
Part of this is my reading a bunch of manga recently – well known for gender-bending, and partly my looking up the plot to Skin Horse early in this comic.
In any case – she’s lacking something that makes her a ‘real’ girl – much like pinocchio was a boy, but not a ‘real’ boy.
Hey so, for reasons I can’t articulate I dawdled on commenting until two days after the fact, but I’m glad you liked the drawing. And Channing, happy to add Violet to the fan-artings. 😀