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whoisandyloam · 5 months
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ratbastard69420 · 4 months
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chaotic-autumn · 1 year
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never let anyone convince you that your excitement isn't beautiful. what an incredible thing it is, to notice and be overcome by any bright spot in this too-dark world.
it doesn't matter what you're excited about, how small it seems to other people, your joy deserves to grow as big as it can. nurture it. help it grow strong so that when you are hurting your joy can lend you its strength.
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biteable-pink-pixie · 29 days
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Nerds can fucking GET IT. And by 'it' I mean this pussy. ♡
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viridianriver · 6 months
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ok so I realized I've been up to some hacker ass shenanigans these last few years and didn't even know.
i bike in a car centric american city and got sick of drivers 'not seeing me' at night. I got this fully retroreflective jacket from a rave gear store bc it was cuter than the cycling ones. like you will fuckin see me. Everyone was giving me space or stopping. Especially the prototype autonomous vehicles a bunch of companies are testing in my city.
well, i just found out that my jacket scatters the light back so well that it completely wrecks a LIDAR. Like this jacket anywhere in frame? Can't see shit. I'm a block of [CENSORED], there's a ghost reflection (lens flare?), and there's noise everywhere.
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Also not to get up to more mayhem knowingly but how would the [censored] jacket pair with a cane with an embedded radar reflector, and a pair of latex leggings?
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bowtiepastabitch · 4 months
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Historical Analysis: class and injustice in 'The Ressurrectionists' minisode
Alternate title: why we're tempted to be upset with Aziraphale and why that's only halfway fair
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Okay so first off huge thanks to @makewayforbigcrossducks for asking the question (and follow-up questions lol) that brought me to put these thoughts all together into a little history nerd ramble. That question being, Why is Aziraphale so clueless? Obviously, from a plot perspective, we know we need to learn some lessons about human moral dilemmas and injustices. But from a character perspective? A lot of this minisode is about Aziraphale being forced to confront the flaws of heavenly logic. This whole idea that "poverty is ineffable" basically boils down to 'yeah some people are poor, but their souls can be saved just as if not more easily that way, so it's not our problem and they probably deserve it anyway for not working hard enough,' a perspective that persists in many modern religious circles. Aziraphale isn't looking at the human factor here, he's pretty much purely concerned about the dichotomy of good and wicked human behavior and the spiritual consequences thereof, because that's what he's been told to believe. His whole goal is to "show her the error of her ways." He believes, quite wholeheartedly, that he's helping her in the long run.
"the lower you start, the more opportunities you have"
So here's what we're asking ourselves: Why did it take him so bloody long to realize how stupid that is? Sure, he's willing to excuse all kinds of things in the name of ineffability, but if someone in the year of our lord 2023 told me he was just now realizing that homelessness was bad after experiencing the past two centuries, I'd be resisting the urge to get violent even if he WAS played by Michael Sheen.
Historical context: a new type of poverty
Prior to the 19th century (1800s), poverty was a very different animal from what we deal with now. The lowest classes went through a dynamic change leading up to the industrial revolution, with proto-industrialization already moving people into more manufacture-focused tasks and rapid urbanization as a result of increasingly unlivable conditions for rural peasantry. The enclosure of common lands and tennancies by wealthy landowners for the more profitable sheep raising displaced lots of families, and in combination with poor harvests and rising rents, many people were driven to cities to seek out new ways of eeking out a living.
Before this, your ability to eat largely would have depended on the harvest in your local area. This can, for our purposes, be read as: you're really only a miracle away from being able to survive the winter. Juxtapose this, then, with the relatively new conundrum of an unhoused urban poor population. Now if you want to eat, you need money itself, no exceptions, unless you want to steal food. Charity at the time was often just as much harm as good, nearly always tied deeply up in religious attitudes and a stronger desire to proselytize than improve quality of lie. As a young woman, finding work in a city is going to be incredibly difficult, especially if you're not clean and proper enough to present as a housemaid or other service laborer. As such, Elspeth turns to body snatching to try to make a better life for herself and Wee Morag. She's out of options and she knows it.
You know who doesn't know that? Aziraphale.
The rise of capitalism
The biggest piece of the puzzle which Aziraphale is missing here is that he hasn't quite caught onto the concept of capitalism yet. To him, human professions are just silly little tasks, and she should be able to support herself if she just tried. Bookselling, weaving, farming, these are all just things humans do, in his mind. He suggests these things as options because it hasn't occurred to him yet that Elspeth is doing this out of desperation, but he also just doesn't grasp the concept of capital. Crowley does, he thinks it's hilarious, but Aziraphale is just confused as to why these occupations aren't genuine options. Farming in particular, as briefly touched on above, was formerly carried out largely on common land, tennancies, or on family plots, and land-as-capital is an emerging concept in this period of time (previously, landowners acted more like local lords than modern landlords). Aziraphale just isn't picking up on the fact that money itself is the root issue.
Even when he realizes that he fucked up by soup-ifying the corpse, he doesn't offer to give them money but rather to help dig up another body. He still isn't processing the systemic issues at play (poverty) merely what's been immediately presented to him (corpses), and this is, from my perspective, half a result of his tunnel-vision on morality and half of his inability to process this new mode of human suffering.
Half a conclusion and other thoughts
So we bring ourselves back around to the question of Aziraphale's cluelessness. Aziraphale is, as an individual, consistently behind on the times. He likes doing things a certain way and rarely changes his methodology unless someone forces his hand. Even with the best intentions, his ability to help in this minisode is hindered by two points: 1)his continued adherance to heavenly dogma 2)his inability to process the changing nature of human society. His strongest desire at any point is to ensure that good is carried out, an objective good as defined by heavenly values, and while I think it's one of his biggest character hangups, I also can't totally blame him for clinging to the only identity given to him or for worrying about something that is, as an ethereal being, a very real concern. Unfortunately, he also lacks an understanding of the actual human needs that present themselves. Where Elspeth knows that what she needs is money, Aziraphale doesn't seem to process that money is the only solution to the immediate problem. This is in part probably because a century prior the needs of the poor were much simpler, and thus miraculous assistance would never have interfered with 'the virtues of poverty'. (You can make someone's crops grow, and they'll eat well, but giving someone money actually changes their economic status.) Thus, his actions in this episode illustrate the intersection of heavenly guidelines with a weak understanding of modern structures.
This especially makes sense with his response to being told to give her money. Our angel is many things, but I would never peg him as having any attachment to his money. He's not hesitant because he doesn't want to part with it, he's hesitant because he's still scared it's the wrong thing to do in this scenario. He really is trying to be good and helpful. So yes, we're justifiably pretty miffed to see him so blatantly unaware and damaging. He definitely holds a lot of responsibility for the genuine tragedy of this minisode, and I think Crowley pointing out that it's 'different when you knew them' is an extremely important moment for Aziraphale's relationship with humanity. Up until now, he's done a pretty good job insulating himself from the capacity of humans for nastiness, his seeming naivity at the Bastille being case in point.
In the end, I think Aziraphale's role in this minisode is incredibly complex, especially within its historical context. He's obstinate and clueless but also deeply concerned with spiritual wellbeing (which is, to Aziraphale, simply wellbeing) and doing the right thing to be helpful. While it's easy to allow tiny Crowley (my beloved) to eclipse the tragic nature and moral complexity of this minisode, I think in the end it's just as important to long-term character development as 'A Companion to Owls'. We saw him make the right choice with Job's children, and now we see him make the wrong choice. And that's a thing people do sometimes, a thing humans do.
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also tagging @ineffabildaddy, @kimberellaroo, and @raining-stars-somewhere-else whose comments on the original post were invaluable in helping me organize my thoughts and feelings about this topic. They also provided great insight that, in my opinion, is worth going and reading for yourself, even if it didn't factor into my final analysis/judgement.
If I missed anything or you have additional thoughts, please please share!!! <3
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timuera · 6 months
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powerbook145 · 4 months
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Katakana for emphasis/difference
Earlier I was telling @earhartsease about the use of katakana not only foreign loan words but for emphasis/difference. I found a few examples in my Kanken training app, so I thought I'd share them here.
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Here the question is asking you to convert the syllables オギナウ from katakana to the correct kanji and hiragana combination. In this case, the katakana is used to supply the syllables but not the information in those syllables (not the character, with its embedded meaning, or the cutoff between the character and the hiragana that completes the adjective.
The correct answer here is 補う.
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Here the katakana アイウエ (a i u e) are used like an English multiple choice ABCD. (Correct answer ウ, U, because the compound 若者, wakamono, young person, is comprised of 2 訓読み, kun-yomi, or native Japanese readings).
And here's an example of me answering the type of question in the first example.
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wahbegan · 5 days
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I know everyone loves Jaghatai's roasts of the other Primarchs, as they SHOULD, but Angron doesn't get nearly enough for his fucking takedowns of Guilliman and Russ.
“What would you know of struggle, perfect son? When have you fought against the mutilation of your mind? When have you had to do anything other than tally compliances and polish your armor? The people of your world named you "Great One". The people of mine called me slave. Which one of us landed on a paradise of civilization to be raised by a foster father, Roboute? Which one of us was given armies to lead after training in the halls of the Macraggian High Riders? Which one of us inherited a strong, cultured kingdom? And which one of us had to rise up against a kingdom with nothing but a horde of starving slaves? Which one of us was a child enslaved on a world of monsters, with his brain cut up by carving knives? Listen to your blue clad wretches yelling courage and honor, courage and honor, courage and honor! Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the kingdom which enslaves you, no matter that their armies outnumber yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage! Honor is resisting a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You know nothing of honor!”
and of course
Angron had laughed, the sound rich and true. ‘Such pretty lies! We fight for the same reasons men have always fought: for land, for resources, for wealth and for bodies to feed into the grinders of industry. We fight to silence anyone that dares draw breath and whisper a different opinion from ours. We fight because the Emperor wants every world in his hands. All he knows is slavery, painted in the inoffensive cloak of compliance. The very notion of freedom is a horror to him.’
‘Traitor,’ Russ hissed.
Angron stood tall, still grinning. ‘Do we give choices to those we slaughter? A true choice? Or do we broadcast that they must throw their weapons into the fires of peace and bow down, faces pushed into the mud like beggars, thanking us for the culture we force upon them? We offer them compliance or we offer them death. How am I a traitor, wolfling? I fight as you fight, as loyal as you are. I do the tyrant’s bidding...
I am loyal, the same as you. I am told to bathe my Legion in the blood of innocents and sinners alike, and I do it, because it is all that’s left for me in this life. I do these things, and I enjoy them, not because we are moral, or right – or loving souls seeking to enlighten a dark universe – but because all I feel are the Butcher’s Nails hammered into my brain. I serve because of this “mutilation”. Without it? Well, perhaps I might be a more moral man, like you claim to be. A virtuous man, eh? Perhaps I might ascend the steps of our father’s palace and take the slaving bastard’s head.’
God, Angron could have been the true hero of 40k. Of all the Primarchs, he was the only one that truly valued freedom and saw The Emperor for what he was
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dark-nimbus · 2 months
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I GOT A MINI HOOD
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poetsofyore · 2 months
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When your nerd club gets you back into Magic: the Gathering and now you have more shit to waste money on
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staretcorp · 4 months
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Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate
here is Rose and Aziraphale-
remember.. art style keeps changing..
i am slowly trying to get back into the drawing
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wizardsmells · 4 months
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What I would give for even one of my IRL friends to care about KSBD even a fraction as much as I do
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marshallow555 · 3 months
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anyone remember the adventure time trading cards from 2014? i was looking through them and saw i had this card and i thought i should share since there’s a fionna and cake show now :]
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viridianriver · 9 months
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Vengeful Consumption Part 1: A Step Past Ethical Consumption
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Y'all asked for it on my last Ethical Consumption post! Unfortunately, I'm gonna have to do some ~economics talk~ to make this one make sense.
Isn't it dumb for a company to sell something at a loss? You'd think - but it's not always that simple!
There are two big reasons companies sell things at a loss that I like to exploit - and I'll use Uber and Amazon as case studies to explain! This post will focus on Uber, and exploiting an understanding of startup business models and long-term economic trends, and my next post will be on Amazon, and the exploitation of short-term price fluctuations due to large-scale algorithmic pricing models.
But the shit those two companies are doing - and the ways you can exploit that? Is pretty standard, and you can apply this knowledge to any company!
UBER'S Business Model : Disrupt -> Replace -> Monopolize -> Profit
Disruption - Startup founders love to talk about the disruption they're doing. To "shake up old industries" or "bring customers better prices / service." But that's only step one of their business model - and the benefits to consumers are short lived. The rest? The CEO's don't brag about as much - at least in public.
Replacement - After disruption is replacement, where the company aims to put the competition in that market out of business. Uber did this with the taxi industry.
Monopolization - This is the end goal of any tech startup - to control the majority of the market - or as close as possible. Uber currently has 72% of the ride-hailing industry market share, and to put Uber and Lyft together? 98% of the American ride-hailing market.
Profit - After eliminating competition, the company (monopoly or duo-opoly in the case of Uber and Lyft) raises prices to higher than they were ever before, and finally starts turning a significant profit.
How Can A Company Operate At A Loss For Years?
Investors, babey!! Basically, finance bros throw millions or billions of dollars at companies that are currently losing money, making a bet they'll someday start making hella money, and pay them back later (plus more) with a "return on investment". It's a total gamble though - 90% of startups fail.
And how do these finance bros have billions to throw around? Well, they're being invested in by an even bigger fish (who's probably playing with some of your money right now if you use a bank, or have any retirement savings) But that's a whole other LongPost.
That way, the Disruption / Replacement / Monopolization stages of the startup are paid for by insanely rich people who are gambling that they'll become insanely richer off you, the end user, if they succeed.
So what do Uber's finances look like?
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The blue line, Operating Cash Flow, is what we usually think of when we talk about business finances. The money made off the product or service being sold, minus the money spent to operate the business. And up until 2022? Uber was consistently hemmoraging billions of dollars a year. Usually you'd think of that as a failure, but no - things are working as intended. Let's see the other lines.
The yellow line, Financing cash flow, is what Uber was being given by venture capitalists investing in it. Up until 2020-2022, they were pretty consistently raking in billions a year here.
The red line, Investing Cash Flow, is money spent or made when Uber is investing in other companies. So just like how the venture capitalists are putting money down now, hoping for a return later? The red line is Uber putting money into other companies now, hoping for payback. So far it's been negative, but unless they made some damn stupid investments, I'd expect it to go positive eventually.
And the green line, Net Cash Flow, is the total of all the above revenue (money in) and expenditures (money out). They were making bank (while also losing bank) before the pandemic, but that ole global infectious disease screwed up their ~infinite growth mindset~ oh no.
So to summarize all that nerd talk? Uber's been propped up for years by rich guys gambling that it can succeed at monopolizing the market, so that once it does, and hikes prices, they can get even richer.
What's that mean for the rest of us?
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Well, Uber doesn't share its current pricing algorithm let alone historical ones. But to get a feel of price, I plotted the relative frequency of Google seaches for "Uber Expensive" in Pink.
And to note a few trends? A dip in 2020 when nobody was riding for obvious reasons. But more importantly?
A huge spike in 2021 and 2022 - Just as Financing Cash Flow tapered off and Operating Cash Flow became positive. And this is NOT a one - off or coincidence, this was exactly what I expected to see.
Because the low prices at the start? Subsidized by investment money, and with the sole purpose of obtaining a monopoly (Or as close as they could legally get)
But when that dries up? They need to increase fares to increase their Operating Cash Flow, aka the money they make off all of us. Now that they own the market, they can set prices as they please.
I'm always a bit saddened when I see people going to corporations to complain about prices, as if they're doing anything but wasting their breath. We are nearly entirely beside the point in their business model. I've worked in this field - all these startups consider themselves answerable to their venture capital investors, not their users. All they need to provide for you, is the bare minimum level of service to not drive you away. And that's not hard to provide in a monopoly.
So we're getting fucked.. Are you finally gonna tell me how to fuck em back?
First off, don't fuck startup bros, it ain't gonna be pleasurable. But yes, I'll tell you.
Basically, if a company is in it's Disruption / Replacement phases, they're going to be throwing around insane discounts to work towards monopolization. Go ahead, hop on the latest trends. Take that 4 dollar Uber ride. Take that $20 off coupon. Take that free trial (Just remember to cancel!) They're losing money to gain a monopoly.
Just don't stop supporting the businesses the startup is looking to replace either - they'll need your support! But if you take a couple free perks too? No shame IMO.
But keep an eye on the company's financing / investment cash flow. You can track it here. And when it starts to dry up? They're either close to monopolizing a market, or close to going bankrupt. Either way - know their first cash cow's been bled dry, and you're the next cash cow.
So that's your time to bounce! Delete the app and tell your friends to do the same - play your part in screwing them out of that monopoly - and move on to grift the next grifter!
I promise you as an insider in this world, nothing you say or do will make these companies sweat as much as just deleting the app when they need your money most.
(legal disclaimer below the cut. because these bitches are litigious.)
(It's just my fucking opinion bro)
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bowtiepastabitch · 2 months
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Deeply Transgender and Vividly Pornographic: a deep dive into what makes a fic queer
This is a response to the wonderful @ineffabildaddy making this post, which it was originally going to just be a reblog to but once I started approaching a thousand words it was a bit unwieldy so we're just going all the way. If second base is reading their fics and third base is actually talking to your mutuals, I have no clue what this is.
Here's the prompt text that started it all:
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Alright, well I am nothing if not a scientist (narrator voice: they were, in fact, a humanities major), so I spent several hours of my weekend putting this together because I'm a burnt out academic and this is the enrichment in my enclosure. Readers, this is going to contain experpts of some very spicy stuff, so stop here if you're not interested. Me bringing porn? To your tumblr dash? It's more likely than you think.
All fics and such referenced will be linked at the bottom of the page.
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Heteronormativity and cisnormativity, while unfortunately the dominant norm for mainstream pornography, make little appearance within the fandom writing spaces I myself spend time in. That's not to say I haven't read my fair shair of painfully straight smut in my lifetime, but simply that I have taste and am lucky to be neck deep in a fandom with very little of it. Nonetheless, as a card-carrying queer and writer myself, I consider myself quite familiar with the distinctive traits and patterns of queer and cishet pornographic writing. Beyond merely a focus on non-male pleasure or the subtle presence of queer or trans characters, the characterization of queer fanfiction is distinct and has entirely different mannerisms in dealing with conceptions of the body and pleasure. I'll primarily be citing Ineffabildaddy's work, for the sake of a focused analysis, who I will henceforth be referring to as Sam for the sake of pseudo-academic flow.
There are certain linguistic patterns that tend to distinguish heterosexual and heteronormative depictions of sex from queer ones. For instance, "cunt" is utilized sparingly within heteronormative contexts for its vulgarity and added obscenity, whilst queer writers use it pretty universally and without the same subtext. Throughout his writing, Sam works with this queer-coded vocabulary pretty consistently. In "Strawberry Scripture" (F/M), he describes how "Crowley's cunt... was damn-near swollen" and how Aziraphale has to resist "Bury[ing] his face in it immediately." No cis-het man has ever thought about eating pussy that way, and if you find one I'll eat my fucking hat. Likewise, vocabulary for the phallic tends to veer in the direction of "cock" over anything else. Interestingly, this creates a set of contrasting pairings. Heteronormative slang, from my obvervation, is more likely to use 'dick' and 'pussy', and, especially in conjunction, it creates a very distinctive mouthfeel that separates the two and poses them as opposites. 'Pussy', in particular, has a much more feminized feel when juxtaposed against 'dick', favoring much softer consonants and the english diminutive 'y' ending. 'Cock' and 'cunt', in comparison, have a very similar sound and feeling to them, distancing itself from hetero-cis-normative gender dualism of the language. There is, of course, plenty of nuance to this and the use of a variety of language in subverting cisnormative ideas about the sexed body as well, with phrases like 'boypussy' and 'girldick' being rather essential to the way many trans people describe their own bodies. "Fandom's Pornagraphic Subset," (yes I'm stealing sources from my research paper on monsterfucking, suck my dick) an article published in 2021 by Silja Kukka, describes how the "fleshy, hyperbolic descriptions of sex" that characterize this kind of writing are essential to what she dubs the "[creation of] a new genderqueer place outside of the gender dichotomy"(57). If you read enough smut, you know exactly what this is talking about. For example, in "Despite Knowing Better,"(F/M) we get vivid imagery to describe the way "streaks of her spit oozed from her mouth even as Aziraphale fucked it"(Ch5) and of "her walls quivering and clenching around him."(Ch3) This level of graphic sexual depiction goes beyond what would be considered 'tasteful' or 'sexy' in a heteronormative concept of pornography.
In terms of tropes, let's do a deep dive into "Strawberry Scripture"(F/M) to find what makes it queer beyond it's apparently straight pairing. To preface, this fic involves both foodplay and monsterfucking, but we're only gonna analyze one. The inherent queerness of monsterfucking is actually something I've written an entire academic paper on, so I suppose I'll start there. There's something very queer and often very trans about subverting the standard playbook of sexual acts, and while kink itself can easily be heterosexual, most monsterfucking falls far outside that category no matter what genital configuration those involved have. Monsterfucking tends to reject the phallocentrism of heteronormativity and mainstream kink by subverting the concept of the human body itself, giving inhuman and monstrous qualities to characters usually for sex appeal or general kinky shenanigans. While there's an argument to be made for heteronormativity still being able to creep into certain spaces, that certainly isn't true for this fic. There's something intrinsically transgressive about creating an erogenous zone out of a feature that would largely be considered horror or 'gross' in any other form of media, which is exactly what Sam does here as he describes the "cool, satiny sensation that the plates of her scales against his tip engendered." The scales are not merely called apon for their invocation of the unusual but to give them an eroticism in and of themselves, with Crowley reaching orgasm through their stimulation. We also slide gently into Monsterfucker territory in "Close (well you couldn't get much closer)" (M/M), where an argument could be made that the most trans-coded element isn't even Crowley's T-dick but instead the presence of a magic angel dildo. (sentences I never thought I'd fucking say but here we are.) There's something deeply transgender about the deconstruction of genital purpose in sex that recontextualizes the gendered body's role in pleasure. It falls into the same semiotic revolution and reclaiming of the body as the changes in language used by trans folks to rename and reidentify the literal physicality of the body by ones own standards (ie T-dick).
Another major trademark in departing from heteronormatized porn is the shift in narrative focus away from penetrative sex. That is, even in paragraphs where the main sex event is penetration, it rarely takes up even half the prose. The majority of narration is focused on surrounding or tangential actions: "the flowing movement of ... hips was sedate and wanton and lusciously provocative,"(1) "watching the muscles which resided there tense and relax alternately with pleasure,"(2) "his tongue stole past his teeth and slid over them,"(3) and "he whispered, his voice aching and curling and stretching for her"(4); all excerpts pulled from moments in which penetration is taking place, yet the concentration is anywhere but. Likewise, the act of penetration itself only takes up a small portion of physical sex acts in the grander scheme of Sam's writing. Instead, we as readers are presented with a vast spread of cock-sucking, pussy-eating, fingering, teasing, frottage, kissing, and more. Contrast this with the cis-hetero norm, where penetrative sex is the endgoal, and any other action is shucked aside to play second fiddle as mere foreplay. It's the reason virginity as a concept is directly tied to the mystical hymen and one's experience with penetration; a straight girl can suck dick a thousand times and still consider herself a virgin. As such, in a piece of pornographic writing where I have significant trouble finding lines to pull specifically and exclusively describing penetration (seriously, try it out yourself), the heterosexual influence is negligible. And yes, I'm talking about all of them. I had to restructure an entire argument that focused on comparing lines from different works because it was so difficult to find them.
So, in conclusion, Sam, love, there is not an ounce of heteronormativity in even the "straightest" of your writing. Congratulations.
Links, in order of reference:
Strawberry Scripture (3)
Fandom's Pornographic Subset, article by Silja Kukka and a great read
Despite Knowing Better... (4)
Close (you couldn't be much closer)
Many Different Ways to Eat an Oyster (1)
I'm Beginning to See the Light (2)
Author's notes, and then I promise I'll leave y'all alone: Hi! This started as a short analysis but quickly became a three(?)(maybe more?) hour labor of love analyzing the things I love most about both Sam's writing and the writing in this community as a whole. Please please please ask me questions, I'm an autistic little bitch and I like knowing things. My ask box? Open. Comments? Open. Reblogs? Open. If you've read this far, I fucking love you and I am kissing you on the mouth right now. Don't worry, my gender is just queer so it's gay no matter what. <3<3<3
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