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Unrelated: last night I had a dream where James May, Richard Hammond, the Marquis de Carabas and I were sneaking out of the evil samurai lord Clarkson's castle. We had nearly made it to the escape helicopters when de Carabas tripped an alarm. "I told you we shouldn't have trusted him," I cried, as we ran from the ninja guards. "He doesn't even make thematic sense!"
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Suddenly, Shira is a lot more creepy.
And the guro artbooks are kind of a mystery to me. |D Although, well, it also probably has to do with just... for the most part guro squicks me. >___>
I quite like the sort of guro-y stuff that uses suffered violence as sign of strength-- the "knock me down and I'll just keep going!"/"big scary monster" types of deals. That's almost always about male characters, though. Whenever ladies get in the mix it's always dehumanising, women-made-powerless stuff that reeks of issues. Which is why I am confused! How can someone be so cool with female characters but also cool with drawing them being minced? Murr.
But I'll try it later this week once things open up...
I think if I ran into more of that kind, I'd be okay with it... most of the guro I've encountered seems to be with ladies cut up and stuck in suitcases though, and that... ugh. D| I'm just really not in to that. Dammit, I have trouble with finding porn that I feel isn't degrading to women while still hitting my kinks a lot, especially since I'm partial to femsub and bondage and stuff and even when I find that it seems to tend to go too far and squick the hell out of me... =/ I hope this isn't TMI. And it's a pain, because I do believe that femsub stuff can be well-written and degrading in the sexy way without being degrading in every other way too, and I feel much better when the woman is presented sympathetically with a mind of her own and with limits that are at least respected by the narrative - where if they're breached, it's something the author is aware of as not being good. If her suffering is handled tastefully and respectfully... God I don't know if that makes any sense at all, do you know what I mean? But it seems like that's so rare.
Samura... XD I'll just read my BotI and love his fantastic heroines when he does them, because he knows how to write women respectfully and well. And the rest of it... >__> IDK man. It's a strange, strange dichotomy, but at least he does appear to be able to separate his fantasies with his realities, and he knows that women are people too. I think.
KLSJDFLKJLKF
Ahh, I can't beging to imagine what a minefield the whole femsub/bondage scene must be. D: I know what you mean, though, the whole line between when suffering is respectful and when it's just exploitative. Must be hen's teeth to find, man. :|
That's true, I think I'll just stick with BotI and its fab ladyfolk. :)
It's kind of ridiculous. =___= Ugh, at this point I usually settle for writing to my own kinks, or swapping kinks with a friend and we write for each other - we know each other's taste, so that makes it nice. XD I guess the internet is just not ready for femsub-but-respectful porn.
AHHH I can't wait until the translations catch up... there are hot ladies who appear and do some seriously badass shit... SLKDJFLKSDJF Samura, even though he writes his gurobooks I'll still love him just for them.
Speaking of BotI, I picked up volume 20 recently and holy shit is Rin kicking ass!
I haven't picked it up in so long... I need to catch up, especially for the promise of Rin ass-kickin'. :D
SHE DOES SO HARD OMG.
Do you have the scanslations site?
Least, I hope that's the site you were looking for. ♥
Excellent! You'll have to make a reaction post so we can squee? >)
ETA: also, I think I ship this Madara icon with your Adiane icon.
Edited at 2009-05-13 05:24 am (UTC)
Ffff, what a nightmarish (yet strangely awesome) couple. XD
God, wouldn't they be crazy? No bystanders would survive.