misanthropymademe:

The years are arbitrary, but going by this the next stage in the discourse surrounding sex in games is elevating Anna Anthropy text game aesthetics to the standard of writing one must adhere to, needlessly queering it (yes, it is in those games, but the fluffy awkward self-aware style also constantly appears in hetero drabbles) and never seeing how it’s a tool rather than an end itself.

It’s like taking a look at bodice rippers and run-of-the-mill porn and then concluding that the former is obviously much safer and realistic because ~it has a story and that makes it more real~, never mind that flesh-and-blood humans have meaningless casual sex without a stormy romance tacked on top of it all the time. 

The fumbling, hesitant yet pure, supposedly queer style of the hurt/comfort fic with a little sauciness on top is already a rote cliché. It’s rife with its own problematic implications (if you give a shit about those, which the Walker crowd probably does). Sex as a substitute for therapy, endless emotional self-sacrifice as a sign of purity of one’s love, co-dependency, redemption for the worst of villains, tossing consent overboard in some cases (remember that Gone Home had a note in which one half of the pair of lovebirds began kissing the other while she was asleep), etcetera. 

Uncharitable interpretation: these dudes hate their own sexuality and by wording it in supposedly queer terminology/dressing it up in a cutesy aesthetic it becomes defanged and they feel less guilty about being horny. Project all problematic elements of horniness on the Other, the dreaded gamerbro. View this sexual mode as inauthentic because, gosh, it’s commodified (as if ‘queer sexuality’ isn’t its own form of branding). Nobody’s buying it, in more than one meaning of the word. 

queerness as ASMR