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@five-one-two-station
Also, any supposed bi/les girl who is out there clutching pearls at two women having a passionate and meaningful stand up fuck in a place we consider unpleasant is disrespecting her beautiful heritage.
This is a post about lesbian sex and Arcane.
i rly like this one!!! ive been having awful impostor syndrome but this one helped a lot lmao :P
Rewatching Arcane and I’ll never get over the fact that there is no indication that Caitlyn returns to Piltover to get paperwork to break Vi out, doubled with the fact that Jayce clearly had no idea she had done so, which means while she’s still healing from the bomb attack she ran away from home, impersonated an officer (dressing as an enforcer despite being freshly fired) and brought paperwork with her with the intent of forgery originally just to hopefully get a name from a prisoner because she was obsessively overconfident of the fact she’s a better detective than anyone else. Absolutely tickles me.
“My crimes are justified because I’m right.” This woman is insane.
Thinking about this again and how Caitlyn’s original motivation isn’t revenge for being blown up, isn’t concerns over the Enforcer’s incompetency towards the case or suspicion of corruption in the force. The catalyst isn’t people died or a potential WMD got stolen. No, what finally gave her the push to break several laws without giving a fuck, diving headfirst into trying to solve a mass-murder/drug smuggling conspiracy to first and foremost prove herself, was being offered a desk job.
Character of all time.
Finally got around to playing signalis. I feel like an idiot for not realising this was a survival horror game.
You Returned
Happy 512!
𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚞𝚖𝚊
—i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”
@halfalive-chaos - Context
Oh BOY do I have some big giant feelings about this!
The short answer is yes, I think people/The Audience has forgotten this - but I also don't think it's entirely their fault.
Part of the reason I was really impressed by how Arcane used and executed the scene, and why I keep going on about it, is that this whole subject is kind of an ongoing concern of mine.
I very sincerely think that the documented decline of, not just sex, but horniness, in media has narrowed the spectrum of contexts we're used to seeing sex and sexuality happen in our storytelling, in ways that are doing us harm.
Because mainstream media has started shying away from engaging with sex to the degree that it has, sex is now almost invariably depicted in extremes - either "Aren't we edgy big boys now?" stuff like The Boys, or miserably sad traumatic drama grist - or else not at all.
And because "regular" tv has been scared off showing sex, it's vanishingly rare to see characters who are in love have sex, or to be sexual as an expression of that, certainly without some negative element to it.
That means we're almost never asked to think of it in terms of sincere, meaningful character communication, or as a storytelling mechanism, or ever presented with it in the context of a positive wider relationship.
I think the hazard of this is obvious - if our media and storytelling doesn't engage with healthy sex in that wider context, or use it purposefully, then we're conceding the whole conversation around it to porn, to novelty edgelordism, and grimdark miseryfests. Those things will define all our language and imagery around it, and the only time we'll ever see it will be upsetting, harmful or ugly. When it is easier to stumble across a scene of rape than it is to see a consenting woman orgasm, it's little wonder people can become reflexively suspicious of any sexuality at all.
But even when it's not so extreme as that, more often than not it's depicted as a casual fling instead, divorced from a bigger picture, or a distraction, an alternative to a grander and truer romantic interest. There's nothing at all wrong with sex for pleasure, don't misunderstand me, but it's odd that our media landscape has engineered a situation where depictions of sex in the context of a bigger love story almost never happen. It would seem then that we can have one or the other - sex or romance - but never at once.
And we're diminishing it with all of this. We're saying this incredibly important, intense, uniquely vulnerable and intimate feature of the human experience doesn't matter enough to talk about. We're saying that sex and love don't have any functional overlap. Even at best, we're pretending that sex isn't important in relationships, or increasingly, that the only good sex is... well... sexless. Sterile. Permissable and virtuous only when it's so "clean" and so perfect in circumstance that it becomes an unattainably impossible kind of ceremony.
The venue must be perfect. The characters must be not only unimpeachable, but historically and permanently so, and exactly as faultless as each other - they must be exactly the same social status, age, background, emotional state and situation. There can be no power imbalance or even a risked perception of one. No chequered history to leave behind, no overcome adversities, nothing that had to be learned. No transgressions to have been worked through, and comprehensively put to rest now.
Indeed, the moment must be so sublimely judged that it's unlikely to ever actually arise in a drama to start with; the characters must be in such a stable situation that there's no actual storytelling to be done here to warrant the scene occurring in the first place.
Which is convenient, because in this framework, the only unproblematic sex is the sex nobody can possibly have anyway. Because nobody can have "perfect" sex. That's not how it works - the fundamental nature of intimacy is taking each other for what you actually are, in all of the reality involved. If it can't be messy, it's not true.
All of this comes with extra points and splinters too when it comes to the matter of lesbian sex in particular, and the complicated history of how we've been either exploited for disposable male titilation, or else rendered chastely invisible by well intended feminists of all persuasions. We were already being presented with a sex or romance dichotomy, and never mind if either one worked.
It's a dysfunctional either/or. Asexuals & friends notwithstanding, physical intimacy is an incredibly important feature of the lives we spend together, and the bodies we live our lives in. And as much as we'd like to think we're all too cool and aloof for it, for most of us lust is impossible to entirely detach from sentiment, when it comes to the real people we form bonds with.
People falling in love want to fuck each other. People who are in love want to fuck each other. People fall in love in the process of fucking each other. It's not some abstract thing that happens in isolation to our feelings for each other.
I don't think it's good for us to perform such weird acrobatics to pretend none of this is true, whatever the reason for doing so; but that is effectively what modern media does.
And I think we're all poorer for it. We're poorer for missing out on the most private, intimately human kinds of moments in our stories that live in the space where love and lust can intersect. Because that's the only place those moments happen.
Tapping the sign. You are making yourselves weird about sex and it's bad for you.
Calling Deadloch fans!
Do you want to raise funds for an excellent cause with a bonus chance to win my latest creations?
Okay, they’re not therapy puppets, but for a chance to have not one but BOTH of these beauts, read on!
Like my previous shenanigans, simply donate to our chosen charity and send proof of donation to me to get your raffle numbers.
However, in keeping with the show, our charity this year is based in the Northern Territories in Australia, so donations will have to be Australian dollars and for every $10AUD donated, you get one entry (conversion rates = £5-ish GBP/£7-ish USD/£6-ish Euro)
Our charity was nominated by the excellent creators of the show: Financial Assistance for Sistergirls exiting prison, NT, run by justice.not.jails on instagram.
As stated on their IG post “We are a group of individuals organising to support Sistergirls within our networks. We are members of JNJ and work in solidarity and mutual aid practice as social workers, librarians, lawyers, health workers and volunteers.
Funds raised will be allocated to Sistergirls transitioning out of prison.”
To donate to support the cause, please hop over to their current gofundme page for more detail about where your support will go. Let’s see if we can help them hit their target!
Fundraiser by LGBTQ Support : Financial Assistance for Sistergirls exiting prison, NT
As always, to send me your proof of donation, you can ping me in DMs here or on IG or discord, all under the same username.
We’ll be running this until 21st April with the draw happening on 22nd April. And, as always, I’ll be covering shipping costs, so don’t worry about that :)
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Gonna try to start posting on Tumblr, so I'm starting off by migrating my stuff from my Twitter & Bluesky here~
This is yet another location where 'Ständchen' will play if you wait for a while. Right before you get your ending, in the last place Ariane and Elster felt true happiness. She is welcoming you home
Korean only occurs very rarely in Signalis, but since I wasn't expecting the game to have any, I'm pretty startled whenever I find some. This is the first instance: all the wall safes have this 'CAUTION' label on the back of their doors. The second instance occurs during the fake ending. I don't know if there are any more - if you've found other instances of Korean in this game, I'd love to hear from you.
