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Men (trans men included) dni or I'll rip out your throat with my teeth 😃

[ace-trainer-alice]

There's a fairly deep eroticism to be found in "if [it] wanted to leave [it] would leave". Social control mechanisms, ignoring obvious physical barriers, the forceful implication of consent. I of course especially just like the social control of it. Sitting it in my lap and touching it while it makes noises singing of discomfort and insisting that it could get up and leave if it wanted to. Very good.

[cuddlemari]

hypothesis: combat doll kink is anxiety accommodation fantasy

observation: stock trope of combat doll kink is the "hound/handler" dynamic, popularized by WARHOUND. an obedient hound who thrives on the approval of their master, their handler.

this handler guides the hound through intense, life-threatening situations, providing reassurance and recognition for their effort. they administer rewards for their servitude, both in a classic S&M style and in a more emotionally intimate way. to me, this is barely distinguishable from having a friend that supports you and helps you with difficult tasks when you feel scared. most of the difference is ludic and archetypal.

enter the hound as a sufferer of generalized anxiety disorder!

when every situation feels tense and dangerous, when you require a lot of reassurance for things that may seem basic or uncomplicated for other people... you can really start to feel like you're soldiering on through life.

when you become so afraid of everything, it almost loops back around into fearlessness. you know exactly how everything and anything can bite you in the ass, and you have a reasonable understanding of the likelihood of these things happening, even though that doesn't make you any less afraid.

so having a figure present to administer rewards for your effort is a pretty good way to balance out the feeling of maximum effort for minimum outcome.

someone there to hold your chin and tell you what a good hound you are...

even if all you did was go buy groceries or go to the bank,

even if all you did was the chores you were supposed to do,

because those things are still important. it wouldn't be worth such a fuss if they were not.

and you deserve help accomplishing those things before you go and handle them on your own.

these are some observations i have on the archetype as a feature of the genre.

[maxxie-or-smth]

what's a little sadomasochism between friends

[muzzlesbian]

mechsploitation handler with a bunch of fucked up brainwashed hounds but instead of sending them into battle she kinda just uses them to sweep lobbies in multiplayer games

[muzzlesbian]

you're several minutes into a round of tf2 and losing badly when one of your teammates says "unleash" over VC out of nowhere, and before you know it four of your other team members start howling and barking as they rack up ridiculous kill streaks

[muzzlesbian]

handler? heh, i hardly know 'er— (my thoughts suddenly fill with a thousand flashbacks to mindrapes and endless conditioning at Her hand, including the very session where She ensured i would have this reaction whenever i made that joke) hhuh what was i saying again

[houndtrainer]

mutt gets its reward

[oddandtired]

Hey, can I interest you with a gritty sci-fi action comic with big mechs, a transfem main character and a very hot pilot/handler lesbian love story? Well, do I have a treat for you!

I just got this 40 page story done! Sadly it exists only in Finnish for now, but that's going to change soon!

Making this comic was more fun than I've had in ages, and hopefully I can return to Chaeri and Enna soon.

[estrogirlie]

fuck my stupid tranny life, you invite the doggirl over and take her out without a leash ONCE and she runs into traffic 😒

[nanadouken]

grabbable

( bsky link )

[despazito]

Doing donuts with my dog in the car sack

[bunger2004]

sniffsnifffsniffffffff

[how-to-be-a-pilot]

drawing 4: sartha in chains

hey i was trying to get better at painting in procreate so i didn't get much done with comics this week.

i did do this painting thing that i like, so im posting this instead. cw nudity, chains and muzzle, old wounds

[coveredin-soapiee]

Through estrogen and clicker training you can look just like this too

[rattlegeist]

Pilot OC Comm for [Celembrior]

[eightyseventycents]

everyone STOP giving your hounds social media. they keep going on random websites and comparing handlers and everything always gets really heated. we’re getting cyberbully hounds . ive been talking with my buddies from the insurance side of things and we’re getting reports of broken devices and head injuries from hounds throwing their phones and such so hard. please. i understand the photos are pretty but you can manage these things for them. if your hound expresses desire for the internet, suggest some alternatives including but not limited to:

letting her yell at a wall or perhaps a combat dummy

doing a photoshoot of her

letting her watch you do things on your own device

baby sensory videos

internet access is not a toy. your hound is not an “influencer”. keep her on a leash

[court-of-silver-skies]

[14ratss]

Quick and dirty sketch of my take on the DEVOUR mech from girlframe.