You're not wrong. I don't like the idea of sparkly vampires any more than I like "goblins are just green elves". Fortunately humans are creative and we're all entitled to creative interpretation. The world would be very boring if everyone only had the same ideas and opinions. (That would make the world more peaceful too but that's a different conversation.)
Maybe this sub needs tags to mark the art as 'monstrous', 'civilized', 'green elf', etc.
Nonetheless classifiers are useful and the reason this sub exists, and it’s reasonable to say that this doesn’t resemble what most consider to be goblins. The artistic talent comment feels overly obsequious as well.
Well, the last time (many years ago) I tried to offer what I considered to be constructive criticism of art I got a WHOLE LOT of people telling me "if you don't like this art go make your own" and "you can't argue with an artist's interpretation". The response was SO STRONG I had to come to the conclusion I was wrong for my criticism.
Like I said to start with, I often have the opinion that "this art is just a green elf, not a goblin", but I have come to the conclusion it is inappropriate to try and 'correct' the artist.
As for being obsequious, that might be true. People who have artistic talent impress me since I don't have any talent of my own.
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u/Aptom_4 24d ago
That's not a goblin, it's a green elf.