when looking at someone’s design: know if it’s an interpretation of the original or a completely new character before getting mad.  this hasn’t been a big issue on mine but i’ve seen a lot of animosity toward the existing femmodels and, while it is understandable, you can’t deny other people’s enjoyment of them (especially since there are alternatives to the mid drift/skirt issues)

and don’t hate the current femsniper just because she doesn’t look like Sniper– she isn’t supposed to.  original characters fulfilling the class roles have no expectations to live up to so long as their style fits within tf2.  wanting one that resembles the original is why i did my paintovers, but unless someone wants to model them, you’ll just have to deal or not deal

and if they are interpretations, don’t be offended if they’re pretty or wearing make up/jewelry (within reason)! i do think all the male characters have a certain level of attractiveness to them and they all have some sense of vanity in the way they style themselves, so why can’t the ladies do that too?  so yeah, no need to hate on the AyesDyef femscout for wearing a skirt (though i echo the notion of impracticality, yet i’ve also seen arguments where people claim that girls of the era did wear skirts for baseball, so, who knows)

don’t get me wrong, i completely understand the frustration of seeing things that don’t line up with your interpretations, but i feel as if any and all mods of these characters are better than nothing.  it’s not an easy process to make them and i’m just glad that the options are out there at all.  the trick to stop getting angry is to find a new way of looking at them; when i stopped trying to compare femscout’s face to Scout’s, and when i heard DustyOldRoses’ voice pack for her, i immediately fell in love with her as a character in her own right

moral of the story is… have fun with this stuff! (or just ignore it)