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You can say a lot about Saito but you can’t say she doesn’t love Anthy. She always draws her so cutely and Gorgeous.
i feel like something that's missing from some people's understanding of kink fiction and fantasy is, like... in fiction and fantasy, everything is in-scene.
when real people do kink in real life, you gotta do all that good out-of-scene stuff like discuss boundaries, set limits and expectations, check in with each other, do aftercare, et cetera et cetera et cetera... but in fiction, everything can be in-scene!
the people in that fanfic don't exist any more than, like, the make-believe sexy football star and make-believe sexy cheerleader in a couple's roleplay exist. that couple doesn't need to get into character and then pretend to be a sexy football star having an important consent conversation with a sexy cheerleader, because that's a conversation that's already happened out-of-scene and out-of-character. (i mean, if you're into in-character negotiations, chase your bliss.) when they're in that scene, they can just pretend to be a sexy football star having sex with a sexy cheerleader. that's okay.
so like. when fiction does kink in a way that would be unsafe or harmful irl... just keep in mind that you're not watching actual people neglecting check-ins or ignoring their set contract or genuinely harming each other. you're watching a scene without the behind-the-scenes bits, and that's okay.
this has gotten a couple replies along the lines of "yeah, you can just assume the characters worked all the important consent stuff out when you weren't looking!" which is true in some cases, but not the point i was trying to make, so please bear with me while i try to rephrase myself.
when i say in fiction, everything is in-scene, i mean that the fiction IS the scene.
if someone went up to their partner and said "hey, wouldn't it be sexy if we pretended you were manipulating and controlling me in an unethical way for sex reasons?", and then they talked through all the good and necessary consent and risk-awareness things, and then they played that scene out - that's a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm, right?
now, if someone writes a story where one character manipulates and controls another in an unethical way for sex reasons... that, too, is a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm.
kink fiction doesn't have to be about characters consciously and conscientiously Doing Kink. kink fiction can be stories where the kinky things people fantasize about or roleplay (but wouldn't want to happen in real life) do happen in the universe of that story. because the story is a scene.
The consent stuff happens when the author markets (or tags, in the event of fanfiction) what the book will be about to potential readers.
The readers can revoke consent at any time by reading another book.
This post is toeing around an important distinction between two applications of kink in writing
diagetic kink: the characters on the page are doing kinkplay intentionally and probably talking about it to each other and may negotiate on page
example: an author writes a story where two characters engage in a roleplay where one of them pretends to be some terrifying and sexy creature and the other character pretends to be their hapless and sexy victim, maybe they even discuss boundaries and desires around cnc and safety planning and aftercare
non diagetic kink: the author has come up with a kinky idea and written a story that plays out the kinky scenario. the characters are not roleplaying in the story, the characters are the role that is being played out in the story.
example: an author writes a story where a sexy hapless victim gets railed by a terrifying but sexy creature
for all the new people getting into uma musume recently, here is a reminder ^w^: you have to draw the horse girls getting as sloppy into each other as possible, and that cygames and the real life horse owners also want you to do this
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Fr? I've been thinking about getting into it can you tell me anything about it?
It's a series of light novels with manga and anime adaptations. It's the story of two college girls who explore the "otherside", a parallel reality where urban legends and horror stories are true. It's super creepy and mind fucky.
It is yuri. It is _not_ subtext, although you have to read pretty far before any actual romance happens. But it's not queerbait.
I've only read the novels and manga, so I can't comment on the anime. I'm kinda meh on the art in the manga. I don't think it captures the action well. The novels are very good. I highly recommend.
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The speed w which I was ready to start arguing w the Jack the Ripper news. Rolling up my gd sleeves rn
And yet ppl everywhere are going to read those headlines and take them as fact. Kill me
When I’m in a contest for most analytically illiterate amateur conspiracy theorist masquerading as a historian and my opponent is Ripperologists
please please please write the longest post explaining why we can’t know who jack the ripper is and the latest claims
This gonna be kind of quick and dirty but the gist of it is basically that a (deteriorated) shawl that allegedly belonged to one of the victims (Catherine Eddowes) was tested for mitochondrial DNA, and based on those results there’s a historian named Russell Edwards claiming that it’s definitive proof that a man named Aaron Kosminski was Jack the Ripper.
There are a lot of problems with this.
- One, this shawl has never been 100% authenticated and its provenance can’t be traced back to the murder scene with zero doubts, so there’s an argument to be made that it never really belonged to Catherine Eddowes/wasn’t at the scene of her murder anyway.
- Even if it is really her shawl, and was found at her murder scene, it’s been passed down through several generations and spent a long time in storage. It’s badly degraded. And it’s likely that several people have come into close contact with it in the last 130 years, which means lots of potential sources of contaminant DNA.
- DNA degrades over time, and given that the garment itself is in pretty bad shape, it’s harder to take the test results at face value.
- The testing done was for mitochondrial DNA. Experts have already commented that mitochondrial DNA cannot/should not be used to determine a positive connection in a case like this; ideally, under these circumstances, and in the context of forensics, it’s more useful for ruling out potential non-matches instead.
- Even if it were somehow possible to fully authenticate the DNA results, they would not, in and of themselves, be evidence of murder. Even if they could be determined without any doubt to belong to Aaron Kosminski, it doesn’t prove he killed Catherine Eddowes; it only proves he had contact with her and her shawl, at some point.
- The genetic material in question is alleged to come from a semen stain. Given that a lot of the suspects interviewed by police at the time had a habit of patronizing local sex workers, it’s not unthinkable that there could be DNA on her shawl from someone who was just a normal paying customer in one of those encounters.
- “Aaron Kosminski” is literally a made up suspect. I’m not joking. There were several, several men police actually interviewed and interrogated during that time, but the only reference to a “Kosminski” is literally just the last name “Kosminski” appearing on a 1894 memorandum written by Sir Melville Macnaghten, the Assistant Chief Constable of the London Metropolitan Police, in a list of possible suspects. This was a. several years after the murders stopped and b. is literally just a Polish last name with no other identifying information.
- A Ripperologist produced the identity of Aaron Kosminski entirely on their own, by tracking down someone who just happened to be named “Kosminski” on asylum admittance records from 1889. This Aaron Kosminski was a Polish Jew from Whitechapel; obviously, a place a lot of Polish Jews lived in London. He was recorded as suffering from psychosis w paranoia, and was likely schizophrenic. There are no records of him ever being violent.
- At the time of the murders and during the initial investigation, antisemitism and xenophobia became absolutely out of control in connection to the case. The extent of this cannot be understated. Jews and other racial and ethnic minorities were harassed in the streets, riots broke out, ridiculous and cartoonish conspiracy theories abounded. At one point during all of this, the newspaper The East London Observer reported a belief that “no Englishman could have perpetrated such a horrible crime, and that it must have been done by a Jew.”
- I mean that’s blood libel. We’ve arrived at blood libel.
- When it came to police, Polish Jews were particularly targeted for investigation and interrogation, regardless of any actual connection to the victims or the circumstances of the murders.
- So. Ripperologists literally pulled a mentally ill Polish Jew who was from Whitechapel out of a hat, based of off someone who was maybe, possibly, at some point a suspect having the same last name. In a specific area of a massive urban city with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Polish Jews living there. And then a man tested DNA from people who are, many generations later, reportedly distantly related to that man. And he tested it against a sample taken from an artifact that’s never been fully authenticated and is significantly degraded.
- And now that man is claiming that the “positive match” is definitive proof that said mentally ill Polish Jew pulled out of a hat was Jack the Ripper. Bc why not continue the legacy of conspiracy thinking and antisemitism at a time like this, right?
It’s just irresponsible. Both of Russell Edwards, and of the news outlets reporting on it without any pushback or criticism.
(I recommend checking out the podcast Historical Blindness’s two part series of Jack the Ripper. That’s where I found a lot of the primary source material referenced here).
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