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brainwormed so thoroughly by warhound that i am now writing a forcefem/boyremoval mechsplo fic:
Philomela, dysphoric and depressed, follows her older sister in joining the Rebellion. Just when things seem to be getting better for her, poor circumstance puts her in the care of the sinister Handler Theta, who seems to want to use Philomela's dysphoria to her own ends.
please enjoy the change of philomela
chapter 8 is out now :)
i missed drawing her...
I literally only just now got her name
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Hey everyone I'm she/her now happy pride 😊🎉
Hi there !, your art is awesome and I can't wait to see more of it !, would it be okay if you drew parian and flechette, those two are awesome !,
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i remembered its pride month happy pride month
hdg is the perfect collaborative internet fiction project for anyone who's ever wished their mind control rape pornography had a hays code
people make memes about taylor cutting lung's dick off but i think taylor does have a noteworthy fascination with castrating her enemies. in addition to the lung battle(s), she references castration in her fight with mannequin both in dialogue and in her internal monologue. after revealing her faked death she says, "Come on! Fight me! Don’t you have the balls to take on a teenage girl? Or are they one of the things you cut away!?" (12.7). Then later on, she notes that, "His body was like Armsmaster’s powersuit, but every piece of equipment he added necessitated that he cut away a pound of flesh" (ibid.). this "pound of flesh" is a reference to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, as well as to historical anxieties regarding circumcision, the forcible castration of christians by jews.
on a psychoanalytic level we might read taylor's interest in castration as another element of her sublimated rage against systemic injustice. taylor's ultraviolence against her (typically male) antagonists must be understood as being a result of the vicissitudes she has suffered as a young woman in patriarchal society. i think we must also read it, however, as yet another of the conspicuously vast number of transfeminine valences throughout the text.
Another critical example (6.6)
I recognized your name from ao3 and I wanted to say, both human and not is my absolute favorite work in the worm fandom.
ohoho thank you very much :)
it's probably also my favorite of my own amyfics. i think i expressed a lot of my amy ideas concisely and potently. it's also very organized thematically, i think, in a way a lot of my older stuff certainly is not lmao. if i could have wildbow read one of my fics, it would be that one, i think. i want to know his thoughts wrt amy vis a vis lolita.
as long as i'm being conceited i might as well just link the fic:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
"cauldron did nothing wrong" mfs when you remind them that cauldron engaged in neocolonial arrangements of unequal exchange with nations in the global South, most egregiously in West Africa and South Asia
brainwormed so thoroughly by warhound that i am now writing a forcefem/boyremoval mechsplo fic:
Philomela, dysphoric and depressed, follows her older sister in joining the Rebellion. Just when things seem to be getting better for her, poor circumstance puts her in the care of the sinister Handler Theta, who seems to want to use Philomela's dysphoria to her own ends.
please enjoy the change of philomela
chapter 7 out now :)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
one thing i find really fascinating about RESCUE HOUND is kione's initial reluctance to become sartha's new handler. when kione, out of passionate fury, takes sartha "off the leash" after their sparring session, she worries--perhaps halfheartedly--that she is no better than Handler herself: "This is what they did. The bad guys. Stripping her. Touching her. Kione isn’t like them if she goes through with this, is she?" however, this guilt is revealed to be a kind of self-defense mechanism of the ego when we learn a little later that: "She’s been rock hard ever since she dropped Hound’s trigger phrase." despite her conscience, her body is communicating something vital to her.
another interesting facet of this first violation is that kione forces sartha to top. although this is, we learn, the same arrangement they had prior to sartha's houndification, there is a decidedly different tenor to it now, for sartha is no longer happy to dom, exactly. what's striking to me about this moment is the way it seems to invert a trans woman's dysphoric humiliation at being the de facto top. when she forces sartha (cis) into an unwanted dominant position, kione (trans) is revisiting and reversing this originary transfeminine trauma.
in this light, then, we can read her subsequent guilt as a sort of gender dysphoria. kione asks herself:
"how could she have done that to Sartha? Why did she get so angry after their sparring session? Why hadn’t she been able to stop herself? And why had it all felt so fucking good? . . . after what she did, is she really any different [from Handler]?"
kione cannot express her own sadism consciously. she is genuinely baffled by the fact that she experienced physical pleasure this way. the pornographic logic of sartha's very existence seems to draw out an unconscious desire in kione. her obsession with "healing" or "curing" sartha's trauma through "roleplay," through rituals of erotic intensity, is therefore really also an unconscious way of trying to heal herself.
when sartha tries to seduce the guilty kione into another sexual encounter, kione notes that, "[Sartha's] voice is so breathy. Feminine, melodic, seductive. It’s so wrong for Sartha Thrace. But who could ever resist it? " in other words, where sartha was tomboyish before, she has since become almost cartoonishly cissexual. this causes kione to become erect: the embodied intensity of the scene bypasses the anxiety of the dynamic, which is after all somewhat silence of the lambs. the prose pays an almost transmisogynistic amount of attention to the physical difference between the two women, signalling the intensity of kione's dysphoria, as well as reminding the audience that this scene is occurring within the historical context of transphobia.
sartha and kione are both able to interact with the throbbing wound of their respective traumas (handler in the former and transphobia/dysphoria in the latter) through the deployment of sadism and masochism. indeed, in this most unconscionably unethical moment, sartha and kione sketch out a model of ethical cnc, the use of overhwelming sadism to heal or come to terms with the traumatized ego.
we might consider this an example of what the critic Avgi Saketopoulou calls "exigent sadism," which she defines in her book sexuality beyond consent:
This force is sadistic, in that it taps into the anarchic, unbinding properties of the sexual drive, and it is exigent, in the sense that it has to do with following without reserve the draw toward opacity. It entails a recognition that one has to do what is necessary (though not in the utilitarian sense) to intervene against mastery, exerting a certain violence on the ego’s tendency to bind. In exigent sadism, we enter into an adventure with all of ourselves, not to make something specific happen but risking the breaking down of our ego and/or curating aesthetic experience that may foster the other’s overwhelm.
kione thus marshals, wittingly or not, the full anarchic power of unrestricted sexuality to heal sartha's trauma as well as to encounter the full weight of her own in this sexual space unbounded by the ego.
someone's probably pointed this out before, but it's so deeply ironic (or maybe tragic) that worm caught on among rationalists, because taylor's recourse to rationality is so obviously pathological lol. taylor's cold intellectualization of her problems is another facet of her tendency toward dissociation: just as she "sees" through her bugs to escape the pain of her human body, so too does she grow to see people around her as so many manipulable objects in her pursuit of moral purity--which ultimately culminates, of course, in the catastrophe of khepri.
this way, taylor is a kind of critique of enlightenment thinking. through her highly rational consequentialist ethics, she comes to kill and violate an ever increasing number of people. this mirrors the inexorable movement from descartes to the atom bomb. but taylor's icy utilitarianism, again, is so clearly rooted in her inability to cope with trauma. this is why we see it valorized by the likes of yudkowsky and the zizians. very sad indeed.
people make memes about taylor cutting lung's dick off but i think taylor does have a noteworthy fascination with castrating her enemies. in addition to the lung battle(s), she references castration in her fight with mannequin both in dialogue and in her internal monologue. after revealing her faked death she says, "Come on! Fight me! Don’t you have the balls to take on a teenage girl? Or are they one of the things you cut away!?" (12.7). Then later on, she notes that, "His body was like Armsmaster’s powersuit, but every piece of equipment he added necessitated that he cut away a pound of flesh" (ibid.). this "pound of flesh" is a reference to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, as well as to historical anxieties regarding circumcision, the forcible castration of christians by jews.
on a psychoanalytic level we might read taylor's interest in castration as another element of her sublimated rage against systemic injustice. taylor's ultraviolence against her (typically male) antagonists must be understood as being a result of the vicissitudes she has suffered as a young woman in patriarchal society. i think we must also read it, however, as yet another of the conspicuously vast number of transfeminine valences throughout the text.
She’s a creature,
What's your go-to font for writing
garamond? fuck that shit. TIMES. NEW. ROMAN.
