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let's be real bold and say we need more omegaverse abortions :D   2 reply

whether you focus on the local or look more broadly, you can find connections between the various crises and struggles happening now. pick a place to start investigating and you can develop your understanding of the systems at play. everyone needs to develop class consciousness, posthaste! organize to seize the means of production! think globally, ......   1 reply

COSIGNED!!! hoping the creator of "an unsettling scent" practices more with coloring darker skin tones because the couple of very dark skinned characters there were looking real lifeless and inhumanly grayish. the coloring for that series is generally cool-toned and desaturated, but it could still look better even in that style. the characters the......   1 reply

sorry that you're getting hostile engagement on this, but I think it's a worthwhile drum to keep beating. it could be simple fun/titillation to present a cis character with a different set of genitals for horny purposes, but oftentimes it so glaringly has a transphobic dimension because those depictions are blatantly an excuse to avoid engaging wit......   2 reply

I like it when bottoms look like they can take a pounding, so having meat on their bones and looking sexually developed is my baseline. even though I don't mind femininity or delicacy in men, it's more reasonable/appealing to me to have it expressed in mannerisms and demeanor rather than strictly physical features in the yaoi sexual dimorphism kind......   1 reply

man, I've got so much to say about this but I'm at work rn so that's going to have to wait ╥﹏╥ first: a deep, long uuuuuuuugggggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's not exactly a shock or surprise, but i do find myself stunned sometimes at the depths of people's ignorance and unwillingness to learn. ignorance by itself isn't a moral failing, but......   2 reply

it's nothing new and it's not outside of the norm, but it's still worth pointing out and criticizing and advocating for alternatives because change is possible and has happened before. sure, the market for bl and other media is determined by consumer tastes and interests, but it also influences and shapes those tastes and interests. it's not a one......   2 reply

ultimately, fiction is where people explore, interpret, and reinterpret the things they're experiencing and observing in real life, so there's always going to be an element of reflecting and engaging with some aspect of reality and society consciously/intentionally or not, no matter how mundane or fantastical the story. BL as a genre/category is a......   reply

it's so frustrating to see character designs for female characters hampered by the "make it sexy" directive, especially since "sexy" only ever seems to come in one variety (maybe two if you're lucky). "once you start, you can never stop." structural awareness will do that to you.   reply

op's quote is making a comparison to marketing tactics to illustrate how ideas can be spread and absorbed without the recipient being conscious of it. it's not theorizing a conspiracy, but trying to explain a concept. repetition is key to learning, and culture/values/ideas are no different. if you can understand how media reflects and influences be......   2 reply

introspection, reflection, and making connections between things aren't skills that come easily for everyone, or that people try to develop. reading comprehension and critical thinking are skills that not everyone hones, or think they have a use for outside of academic tasks. and not everybody is curious about stuff in the same way? I wonder if par......   reply

if they consider "it provokes an emotional reaction" to be good writing and if they refuse to read manga because it's not colorful. also, caring more about what happens in a story or how flashy/attention-getting it is rather than why or how it happens.   reply

my kingdom for enthusiastic consent! from characters who know what they want and how to get it, to those who are new to things but are willing to try - let's get some serious explorations of desire between two (or more) people! what gets me is that even when rape/SA is thrown in to force the narrative along, the impact of that is rarely explored wi......   1 reply

it's abuse. you can't meaningfully say yes to something (a relationship) you can't meaningfully say no to. when the familial relation exists, the importance and function of that role takes precedent and overrides the "lover" role. family roles are a connection no matter what, which undermines the necessary optionality of a romantic relationship. wh......   1 reply

the colorism and orientalist attitudes run rampant.   reply

I think pheromones shouldn't have a proper smell at all. they should simply be suggestive of scents and vibes, and maybe shift in quality depending on the situation. it's kind of hilarious if people in these omegaverse/a/b/o worlds have encyclopedic knowledge of various branded fragrances or even more regular scents (like knowing particular flower......   2 reply

anything with art skill that the writing/story development woefully doesn't match up to. anything that would benefit from the author having more social awareness. every bl that uses sexual assault and/or rape to kickstart romantic and sexual development between the endgame couple. I've got a bone to pick with kim daecheon because their art and sm......   reply

it's amazing how people who say "don't like, don't read" never seem able to apply it to comments they don't like and conversations they never want to have. that line only applies for stuff like fanfics and some other fanworks where hate and other reactions are a direct engagement with the work in question (comments under a fic, replies/quotes to a ......   reply

something something, how gender, sexuality, and the concept of sex itself are constructed under heterosexuality -> general rape culture -> kink and sexual fantasies as a coping/processing method/something people are interested in or fascinated by -> the prevalence of rape and dominance/submission dynamics in romance/erotica -> prevalence of rape in......   1 reply

regardless of everything else, in the moment, he had physical (close, intimate contact, in a vulnerable position) and emotional leverage (you didn't want to disappoint or "lead him on") over you to get what he wanted despite your wishes. consent is ongoing and revocable. if person A and person B agree to do actions 1, 2 and 3, that does not mean ......   reply