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@voredsent.bsky.social

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he/him // 21+ // personal interest account // horror, gore, nsfw, discussion of taboo & potentially disturbing content // i don't like nerd capitalism

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 6h

when you have, like men going "wouldn't it be horny to be a woman" and women going "wouldn't it be horny to be a man," as equally fraught as that can be, i can see how it gives trans people a sort of permission to find sexual desire in the permeability of gender

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 7h

i think some trans men wind up attaching yaoi & some trans women wind up attaching to bishoujo/yuri by horny otaku men BECAUSE those types of media present an idealized, desirable, almost envious view of gender in a world that still categorizes the eroticization of gender a mental illness

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 7h

i think it's worthy to debate this through a feminist lens, because i don't think our only options are cardboard cutout or idealized fantasy that includes interiority as part of the fantasy, it's just wild that even a fantastical angle on women is An angle where a lot of stuff lacks any at all

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 7h

my theory of the horny otaku man who cares about writing women more than men is that a total lack of inhibition can produce more interesting female characters than when the female characters are written to try to appeal to people who don't like women, as in mainstream nerd media

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Yuze @yuzepi.bsky.social · 8h

#oc #ocsky

my oc rina posed dakimakura style, surrounded by frilly ribbon and heart decorations

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Punished “Venom” Asphodel @asphodelles.bsky.social · 1d

heehee

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 1d

i guess it's like how im always saying that hentai games have a specific language of abstraction that you can learn to read, but i just don't personally care for what romantic tragedy in fantasy is doing with that lmao

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 1d

basically, im interested in politics and emotion in fiction, but i think a lot of dark fantasy abstracts those things through archetypes that i find too genre-specific to find all that interesting. but people who are into the codes of the genre might find them more satisfying, i guess

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 1d

like with warhammer, i find stuff that tries to reconcile the setting with human values that diagetically oppose in-universe values (or comedy) more interesting than when it does straightforwardly bleak fantasy stuff, bc im not personally satisfied by the romance of tragedy as a character narrative

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 1d

when i get into "everyone is an amoral person" fiction, it tends to be comedy/satire like the sopranos or succession and not genre fiction, because i think a lot of genre fiction inscribes itself with a sort of romantic quality that i don't really care for when the characters are also nihilistic

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 1d

i don't mind predictability if i think it's well-executed and in some way reflective of real experiences (like the reading of heinrix as a queer analogue), and i tend to not care about static characters in a game format very much, but other people see this sort of marz Forever Unease as very real

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 1d

like i personally find marazhai too simple for my tastes, bc i value what writers say thru characters like heinrix who oppose culture in some way, while IMO marazhai is a straightforward stereotype of his culture, while other ppl think hein's story is too predictable & marz's alieness IS complexity

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 1d

it's an interesting taste thing when people find heinrix very one-note and marazhai complex and vice-versa bc it just speaks to valuing different things in game writing

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Commorragh Municipal Councillor @jeudikale.bsky.social · 2d

Translating my elves in human form
#jeudikale

Two people on a lilac couch, one is lounging with his head over the left arm and the other is sitting on the right side. Ali, the lounging character is a pale, blonde androgynous middle aged trans man. He's wearing a deep v cut red velvet suit and fingers only black leather gloves, one above his head with a smoking cigarette, the other reaching for Kuzma's crotch. Kuzma is a 19 nonbinary Armenian goth wearing a white lace shirt and a graphic black shirt over it. Fae got black hair with a side bang, an unibrow and a strong aquiline nose. He's looking away.
They're both struck in sharp yellow light rays in a dim room.

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 2d

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.

Large model of a green caterpillar, the back of which is covered by dozens of white cocoons. Wasps can be seen emerging from some of the cocoons.

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

i feel like sometimes it's evident if they made the female or male design first, and with female > male, it's always like, "just slap pants on him!" and it clearly doesn't work as well

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

parallel shame vortex where elizeus is like "i bet he thinks i'm gross" and heinrix is like "if i ask to feed him my blood, am i fetishizing his mutation, or giving in to the temptation of chaos, or or or" because they have completely opposite ideas about who was the passive one in that situation

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

elizeus & heinrix get lost in the snow during ulfar's quest, forcing el to eat a bit of hein flesh to keep his energy up, but the comedy afterwards is that el is like "ugh im always asking too much of him" while heinrix is trying to hide that he's popping a boner over the idea of it happening again

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 3d

a lot of like, beautiful, terrible men work on a narrative level because the author is critiquing cultural ideals, but a lot of all-lestat yaoi is straightforward power fantasy, & im like, sure, whatever! abt that, but i think a lot of is desperate to be taken seriously without doing/saying anything

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 3d

people who want everyone to be lestat say "we need more emotional complexity in fiction", but if everyone is lestat-- beautiful and powerful and hedonistic-- then there is LESS moral complexity, because then it comes off as "being this type of guy is awesome" without anything to contrast it to

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 3d

i put my finger on why i hate "everyone is lestat" yaoi, and it's because lestat is not written like a person, he represents a subverted ideal louis has to come to terms with, and he's only interesting in opposition to louis. if everyone is lestat, everyone is just an ideal

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 3d

when people complain about "therapyspeak", something i have never encountered in anything, i'm like, what are you even watching/reading? steven universe? fanfiction?

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based department @devonhinged.bsky.social · 6d

eyes rolled to the back of my head and i suddenly made all this in the past few days

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 3d

lucky my dad is a mechanic so he can change my oil and rotate my tires for free bc god knows cars are so expensive

bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 3d

kind of in love with the fashion label rurumu right now, and im like, i could make stuff like this through crochet and upcycling