[ SECRET POST #5958 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5958 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Succession, Roman Roy]



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[minecraft youtube?]



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[Green Hell]



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[Lost Ruins]
























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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Said in the most neutral way possible: why does "horny" even need a justification to exist? It's almost like it's not yet another human emotion a piece of fiction can evoke.

I wish people would quit being so weird about it.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

But something like Evenicle or Demons Roots is a game about horny, to some extent. They have other themes, but the sex is a part of it. Lost Ruins is a (mostly good!) game about being alone and terrified and watching other people sink into violent depravity. There isn’t really a sexual aspect to the way the other characters fall to violence. It’s just kinda there.

[(Anonymous)]

Replying in the most neutral way possible: everything in a creative work should ideally have some justification to exist. That's what makes a tightly written plot in a detective fiction better than a random meandering one for example. Or why people ask or study "why did the author say this or put that here or what are they referencing" when regarding abstract works like art or poetry

Especially in cases where adding one thing actively detracts from the point: if you have a sad story about an old and beloved dog dying of cancer then randomly make that horny and add a sex scene between the spouses because why not, and also have you noticed their daughter's perky boobs? like... that's weird and taking focus away from the point

Horniness doesn't need a justification to exist, but if you're intentionally adding it to a creative work then you should probably think about how and why

[(Anonymous)]

The thing is, you probably could throw the sex scene into the dying dog story and have it work, depending on what story you were trying to tell. Maybe you need a break in the tension. Maybe there's a message in there about how life continues even through tragedy. Maybe the couple got together because of the dog and you need some affirmation that losing the dog won't break them apart. But you've got to put the effort in to make something like that work, and if you get it wrong it's going to hit anywhere from jarring to absurd.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

This makes me think of this book called Native Speaker. The main character's son died because a bunch of other kids dogpiled him and accidentally crushed him to death. He and his wife have angry, violent sex in which they create a "dogpile of one." It's one of the few things in Native Speaker that actually works.

(Do not read Native Speaker; it is racist garbage.)

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yeah, adding that sort of thought and active intent into it and making it mean something and not leaving people like OP going "why is this even here" is needed to make it work.

...and while that sort of thought addresses the hypothetical sex scene, it doesn't really work for "btw look how perky the daughter's boobs are, bouncy bouncy, ok back to the dying dog" which is how a lot of "horny" is added to anime style media.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, sure. Not disagreeing with you there. It's just that fandom's taken a real "all or nothing" turn on these sort of things lately.