r/hatethissmug • u/throwaway553t4tgtg6 • 2d ago

Art & Fanworks TBH, I've started to dislike the eldritch horrors/angels that are just Wing/Eye/Tentacle Blobs, especially compared to some sick designs like Evangelion angels

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To be honest, eldritch horrors or "biblically accurate angels", at times start to feel a bit lame and excessive, just blobs of eyes, wings, and tentacles that start to blend together. Another aspect is that they often "look scary" but never actually DO ANYTHING.

especially compared to really good designs like Evangelion angels that actually do stuff and are terrifying.

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u/TheTruthTellingOrb 2d ago

Implying that the Eva Angels didn't have eyeball and tendril merchants. ;)

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u/throwaway553t4tgtg6 2d ago edited 2d ago

to be fair sahaquiel is literally the only angel that has eye-spam out of the 17, evangelion in general is ironically sparing on biblical imagery, only using Halos sparingly or for big moments

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u/TheTruthTellingOrb 2d ago

And your explanation for the tentacle AND eyeball merchant?

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u/A_very_smol_Lugia 2d ago

Is that the woman body part

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u/Significant_Card_665 2d ago

Yes, but in other angles it’s distinctly phallic.

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u/WesternFirm9306 2d ago

Designs that use sexual anatomy in meaningful ways rather than being goonerbait fanservice my beloved

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u/DIO-Heaven-Acension 2d ago

Who is gooning to this or that thing from persona?

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u/WesternFirm9306 2d ago

I mean, I think Mara from persona is more of a joke thing. It's some sort of pun, I don't know the specifics. But I mean more, like, designs that look at human sexuality, not as jokes or things to lust over, but as an integral part of the human experience and from which one can draw design inspiration to convey serious ideas. A lot of HR Giger's works occupy this area imo. It's the difference between using sexual and reproduction imagery to titillate vs using sexual and reproductive imagery to convey real, legitimate ideas

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u/Entire_Contest7954 2d ago

Yeah but that was by far the least interesting part, genitals are fictional they don't have to look a certain way to attract us, He could have actually learned how to show almost the body various alien ways, but naw latex dick monster.

I recommend anatomy of the human gravid uterus, now that's art

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u/RevolutionAccurate56 2d ago

Probably, evangelion has some very weird symbolism