#pipit talks

[pinewoodpipit]

I drew fadeshock sex but tumblr hates me and would never let me post it 😞

[pinewoodpipit]

let it be known that on this day, Valorant said "Fade wearing a leather jacket rights"

[pinewoodpipit]

Internet users stop yaasifying women for not being conventionally attractive challenge (difficulty: impossible)

Facial diversity in character is a good thing, actually. Just because you personally can't get off to people with larger noses and jaws doesn't mean you should try and "fix" them 🤨

[pinewoodpipit]

Some of my thoughts about writing smut which I thought I'd share.

For those who don't know, I'm on the ace spectrum, and I also have disabling health issues which affect my intimate life. I am not going to go into any more detail than that, as it's private. That said, though, it proves to be a challenge when writing smut, as I'm approaching it from the perspective of an outside observer.

I think sex scenes can be used just like any other scene; like a fight scene, I enjoy writing them from the viewpoint of exploring characters, and ideally progressing their growth and/or the plot in each encounter. Not every sex scene will do this - I've written smut one-shots which don't really explore characters, and those are because it's actually a fun kind of scene for me to write from a technical standpoint, outside of storytelling.

I see very often that people reduce erotica to just being mindless porn, or indicating that writing with smut in it has inherently less substance and worth than writing without it, regardless of how carefully written the smut is. I pretty vehemently disagree with this viewpoint.

Sex scenes, in my opinion, are a writing tool, just like any other. Writing good sex is a skill of its own and it's one I'm still developing, but it's absolutely something that has worth, and I think it's a huge shame that so much of the writing community treats it with some kind of contempt, as if it's somehow inherently lesser than, when sex is an incredibly important and human topic, and suggesting it shouldn't be talked about can be an incredibly slippery slope to the kind of tight-lipped purity culture attitude which leads to shaming people for having sex within queer communities, and other such dangerous things.

I have a fic about ace-spectrum Fade upcoming where I plan to talk about this topic a fair bit, but I wanted to talk about it here, too. I'm very passionate about it. Purity cultures regarding sex, particularly between queer people, is a dangerous thing to back into that can very easily lead to conversations which frame sex (particularly LGBTQ+ sex) as some kind of perversion rather than something completely natural, and I will always defend erotica as an art form as valuable as any other.

[pinewoodpipit]

Tumblr nsfw flagged my art again which drives me wild because

1: it's really not that explicit, especially considering the rampant porn bots running wild on this site 2: I tagged everything correctly and marked it as mature content, so how is it even against community guidelines?? 3: I've posted more explicit artwork before and they've not had any problem

Tumblr please fix your flagging system and make your TOS clearer, nsfw artists are trying so hard to get by

[pinewoodpipit]

Just saw someone trying to mess with Fadeshock artists and bringing ‘Fadeshocks are pedos’ thing back. Can you please make them kiss harder again?

you got it 🫡

For the record, this is such bullshit. Neon had a full-time job before joining Valorant. She was a soldier at Kingdom; this is how she met Chamber. This is fully established lore - there's no way she's NOT an adult.

This rumour was spread by people who hate this ship in particular for god-knows-what reason, who made up fake ages for agents when the developers have specifically said that they have no canon ages, but are all adults. Them all being adults is also backed up by Viper confirming it when Raze and KJ got together and the no-fraternisation rule got abolished.

Please don't pay these bullshit rumours any heed. They're just going to take the publicity and run and use it as an excuse to claim that Fadeshock shippers are toxic again, when the entire drama over Fadeshock was 90% started by other people.

[pinewoodpipit]

sorry if I'm a bit slow right now, I'm currently in hand jail due to carpal + ulnar tunnel pain I can no longer ignore

[pinewoodpipit]

I wanted to share the origin post behind the supply closet sex fic hahah. This kind of became a meme with my following and friends on Twitter, and it snowballed into what eventually had to be turned into a fic.

It was discussions about an upcoming PBE and the lore I hoped to see, sparked out of frustration because lore release was very slow at that point in time. The PBE was boring iirc with no interesting lore or ball-slapping supply closet sex to be found.