i’ve seen some particularly egregious examples in the past being used by people who had no idea, and it shows exactly how insidious a lot of this shit is. the chans have an obsession with terry a davis and copped a lot of his very racist language and then deleted the obviously offensive parts so that it could be adopted into common language. i still see it being used by people who, i guarantee, have no idea who TAD is

i think it has to do with how memeified right wing stuff is, but after personal experience with that, it’s completely On Fucking Purpose and often serves their goal. i’ve been shouted down in the past for “we dont give fascists <whatever im complaining about>” but honestly, if pepe or whatever the fuck else is so important to you, yeah, im letting you go.

it’s always a red or yellow flag for me when someone’s verbiage is chan or far-right adjacent. i hate how readily conservative slogans and right wing brainrot become assimilated into the greater vernacular. usually it’s a yellow flag to me because i often see left wing messaging conveyed with subverted right wing slogans, but i still really don’t like it. the amount of “Make X Y Again” posts or whatever else frustrates me

like it went from “i might be aroace” to “can anyone spare one (1) drilling me into a wall please”

a couple weeks ago: yeah i guess ill try prog but i doubt itll do shit

4am: hmm i could sleep or get some work done or i could be pinned underneath someone and used for the next few hours

I’ve noticed that there are generally two directions that lewd art will take. they either:

1. focus on eroticizing body parts, the mechanics of sex, sensations, textures, appearances, or other physical things like that
2. or, they focus on eroticizing personality traits, power dynamics, psychological states, or other mental things like that

for an example of #1, there’s a lot of porn on places like rule34, danbooru, or e621 that feels very mechanical to me (I’m obviously extremely biased) - it’s about a big cock going into a tight pussy and rubbing against its slick walls as the pussy copiously drips onto the floor, while a huge ass and breasts bounce and jiggle with each thrust

so the exaggeration and focus happens on the physical level: the pussy is incredibly slick and tight. the cock is incredibly big and throbbing. every body part or physical act has been dialed up a few notches from reality. and there is often very little focus (if any) placed on who the characters are, why they’re fucking, what each of them is getting out of the sex, etc.

but then there’s the #2 category, which can be about sadism, manipulation, fear and anticipation, D/s, etc.⸸ for example a dom inflicts mind-breaking pleasure on their sub just to watch them squirm and writhe and beg, only to deny them release at the last moment for the pleasure of basking in their helpless whimpers. here, the exaggeration and focus is on the mental states of both characters (the dom inflicting exaggerated pleasure as if it were pain, denying the sub’s emotional need for release) and the dynamic between the characters (the helplessness of the sub who has willingly submitted to the dom, and the dom’s aggressive, self-indulgent exploitation of that helplessness). notice that I didn’t mention how the pleasure was being inflicted, or any specific physical acts at all, because in this kind of erotica it doesn’t matter

⸸ of course it can also be something sweeter and more wholesome like comfort-sex, gentle dom, patiently and lovingly guiding someone through their first time while showing them what their body is capable of feeling/doing, etc. the important part is that the emphasis is on psychological things like personalities and mental states

I think I’ve been trying to express this distinction for a while, because I feel like a large majority of porn that I find falls into the #1 category for me, when that is generally a mild turnoff to me. like the vast majority of porn games fall into this category from what I’ve seen - or at least they tend to greatly exaggerate physical attributes (like breast size) which makes me think that they’re going to go in that direction

of course this is a spectrum: I think of it like a one-dimensional spectrum, with “physical” on one side and “mental” on the other. so it’s possible for erotic art to equally emphasize physical and mental aspects of the story, and I’ve seen that too. but the spectrum does feel pretty lopsided to me - I’ve seen a lot more erotic art leaning heavily onto the physical side than I have on the mental side

I think I tend to gravitate toward audio-only erotica or erotic stories because it’s much harder to emphasize physical things in those mediums, because you have to go out of your way to describe them. and I think images and videos are the opposite, where it’s difficult to establish mental factors (you have to use dialog boxes, voice acting, or be very careful to add context through things like body language and expressions) but very easy to show physical things like body part sizes or sex positions