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The archetypical damsel in distress picture figures a women tied to railway tracks awaiting her dreadful faith. I've even made one myself.Typical for France... we have a scandal about just such a picture. This one: http://bit.ly/2AE9WdEThe poster is from a campaign to get the high speed trains ("TGV") to stop in a large town in the South of France where currently it passes through without stopping. The text of the picture is "With the TGV she would have suffered less !"So why did this cause a scandal ? One would expect (this is France, after all) that it was because it's a misogynistic poster. But actually it is worse than that. The poster...

I made my first Damsel in Distress picture in October 2005, this one :thumb44760648: using an Ashley Renee picture for the face. It was my first contribution to AVGDID, where I had been lurking for a few months. Since then I produced some 280 pictures and stories... Not bad, umm?However, my motivation to draw suddenly seem to have disappeared. The backload of fav's to thank and new deviations is also exploding. The reason of the motivation loss? Who knows. My present workload, slight health problems after a stupid accident don't help either. Full stop drawing hiatuses have happened to me before. Unfortunately... the previous period in whic...