To everyone saying “but we need it to translate”, keep in mind if you train on existing h-manga translations you’ll get a lot of really entry-level translation that’s awkward about using “take responsibility”
so Anaïs Nin wrote Delta of Venus, a collection of erotica that includes smatterings of adultery, rape, incest, necrophilia, homosexuality, pretty heavy stuff for the 1940s, but it wasn’t actually published until decades later as it was commissioned for private consumption by The Collector, an American business magnate who was also ordering smut from other writers like Henry Miller.
this is really fucking funny, like these days if Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates wanted to get a little hot under the collar they would just go on AO3 like everybody else, but how much better would it be if they threw cash at Legit Writers and then when they received some Legit Writing they ordered them to take out all the poetry… add more graphic scenes… make it clearer who is sticking what where… no I said no poetic language, cut it out!
but I think it would be even funnier if The Collector turned out to just be a framing device for any artist who wants to let their freak flag fly but is worried they’ll be judged for it (probably doesn’t apply to Nin), or needs a way to overcome the internal sense of cringe (also not applicable): it’s not me that wants to make this filth, I’m merely engaging in work for hire here, I’m the blind instrument of a myopic muse!
basically any time you make something that other people scorn just say oh yeah some crazy American paid me the big bucks for that one, wild isn’t it.
Friendly reminder that Horatio Alger, who wrote rags-to-riches American youth fiction in a capital-first Gilded Age like the one we seem to be entering, gets caricatured as pushing an “up by your bootstraps” self-made ethic but his actual work and “luck and pluck” philosophy explicitly emphasizes the necessity of elite patronage and largely advises self-improvement as a way to, with luck, impress bourgeois who are always in search of reliable quality men to run their enterprises
(“Luck and Pluck” was an h-doujin series I remember from the mid-2000s)
Raceplay videos where they have to specify the identities with onscreen flags and you have no idea what the dynamic between those two means
Also, “white” signified by
the Stormfront logo, black being
the flag of the African Union, and “Good Night White Pride” iconography to represent black male/white female pairs as ethnic cucking. Oh my, this is rich
Which I guess is kind of an inversion of the original idea, you don’t need labels to identify naked people in a video as black or white
Raceplay videos where they have to specify the identities with onscreen flags and you have no idea what the dynamic between those two means
Also, “white” signified by
the Stormfront logo, black being
the flag of the African Union, and “Good Night White Pride” iconography to represent black male/white female pairs as ethnic cucking. Oh my, this is rich
Politics is what happens when you have a difference of opinion that cannot be solved by fighting or by walking away. Politics is the continuation of war by other means. Politics is how we divide up the spoils. Politics is how we decide what’s yours and what’s mine. Politics is how we justify what we’re going to do and how we rationalise what we just did. Politics is how we compete and how we cooperate. Politics is how the bully maintains their power and how the weaklings overthrow the bully. Politics is the central nervous system of humanity. Politics is life and death. Politics is self-interest masquerading as principle. Politics is that which pretends it isn’t politics. Politics is the art of assembling and exercising power.
tumblr user argumate, may I use this as an epigraph in my cdrama slash erotica
nothing else would justify the time I spent writing it
Thought up a blue collar gay porn punchline title “The Unloading Dock”, tried to push the joke further and fill in the details but then realized they weren’t particularly funny, I’m actually into guys now and it was just a legit sexual fantasy
possibly the funniest discourse in the world comes from the Chinese internet wrestling with the morality of jerking it to Japanese pornography given their role in WWII.
