It’s really interesting and kinda cool (although it can get frustrating) how often different fandoms develop different standardized porn tropes. There are fandoms that follow the old 1-2-3 fingers and then cock rule, and fandoms where that sequence is Verboten, fandoms where two guys always take a mental moment to see who’s bigger and fandoms where size is never mentioned, fandoms where near-simultaneous orgasm is standard fare and fandoms where it’s exceptional… it can be really fun to observe as long as you’re not getting frustrated by a lack of variety within a given fandom.
Hmm… I wouldn’t have guessed that this would be strongly correlated with particular fandoms. Do you think there’s some seed-effect at work here, where early works in a given fandom are really really influential, and then people who are into that trope/structure are attracted to that fandom, and those who aren’t are repelled?
The same way that larger things like “Ao3 house style” presumably filter new Ao3 users for being predisposed to like that style.
Nubiles really one of the internet porn brands that’s really held up over the years.
I wonder what CD Girls is up to now.
The fact that you have a grey beard now, and the increase in porn consumption over the last 20 years, makes me dread what the Millennial version of “nostalgic Boomers give Bob Dylan the Nobel prize” will be like
Yes, on the other hand no real name from the post-studio era has broken through, like the Howard Stern-era 90s buildup of porn stars into recognizable brands, it was building all the way up to Sasha Grey getting straight film roles and then the industry ecosystem fell apart. Since then you had a bit of attention around Belle Knox’s debut for some reason, but she hardly turned out to be important. Really it’s been Belle Delphine acting as successor in branching from niche girlhood-provisioning celebrity to household name
The “Princess Cum” porn brand in Nubiles’ portfolio has channel-drifted from a “girl forces a creampie” formula to more freeform often stepfamily incest, but I think it’s also being polished as a premium brand with better thematic eroticism than I’ve seen in professional stuff, and I think a lot of it is really the work of behind the camera and even below the line talent
The direction is – all of this off tube site selections of course – porn aside, it’s someone who can actually shoot film, with a visual logic of shot progression and focus. Just the way that in moving through space it feels like a film and not reality TV. And the porn’s not aside! When it gets down to things that gets put in service of a well-done and really erotic progression of attention.
I sure don’t recognize any of the actresses from elsewhere so I can’t compare but you get such consistently strong performances from the famously iffy porn star talent – less line delivery than expressing a strong understanding of changing dynamics between characters – that I have to think to credit direction.
Also like I say below the line – lighting, styling, makeup, and hair is all really on point – the last three notable for how well they cope with the first without exhibiting any of the marks of San Fernando Valley porn industry style, this whole production really comes off as porn produced by non-specialist entertainment professionals. I suppose it’s also kind of a “look what we can do” brag that the multi-brand Nubiles portfolio is now strong enough to support real staff depth.
Videos are “tagged” with themes including #FreeUse (on stuff that is not really Free Use…), so you can tell they have some awareness of what’s going on out there in erotic memespace. With all the user-created stuff out there on PornHub, Reddit, OnlyFans, A03, I think we’re really in a golden age of the erotic in erotica
Thoughts on “the info hazard” note that you’re several years post anxiety?
Oh, rapebaiting? Yeah thats progressed at about the rate I’d expect, building up below the radar so when the mainstream ‘90s-derived consent culture collapses they’ll be totally blindsided by the “we are dressing and acting like this cause we’re asking for it!”
At least we used to have pirate ravishment romance novels in the drug store to remind us
Nobody is obligated to write femslash as "activism." Actual feminism doesn't involve policing what women choose to create in their leisure time. That is actual misogyny.
What are your opinions on futanari pre and post sexuality change?
Pre-change I noticed how there’s a few different things going under that banner, there’s stuff that’s appealing to what we’d understand as a transfem sensibility but there’s also stuff that’s like “well if girls had dicks, I bet they’d be jerking off all the time and raping all their friends” that seems mostly about *affirmation of phallarchy* as fetish
