well i mean, sex can tell you a lot about characters, right? at least if done well. we learn more about zachikova and arabella from it, same with norn and adelheid. though a lot of the time it doesn’t serve that purpose and idk what’s going on when people can just go watch/read actual porn
Idk if I learned a ton about Zachikova from it? Other than that I wouldn’t have expected her to enjoy getting her blood drank, lol. But the whole scene, non-sexy stuff included, does greatly inform my understanding of her, true! And Arabella actually, like she’s so instantly sympathetic when she’s being a sad puppy about her blood habit. My smol bean aphotic leviathan horror lesbian only wants a lil blood~! As a treat!
But I actually asked this in a discord server 'cause I have no sense of social propriety:
Don’t incriminate yourself unless you wanna: So obviously with purpose-written-and-labelled-erotica, it’s expected that the reader will be reading one-handed. Duh, right? But in your more typical mid-spicy romance novels, like uh a Haley Cass or a Lily Seabrooke which has a few sex scenes at decent detail but spread out… is it expected that the reader will suddenly shove a free hand into their pants when they come up? Obviously sex scenes can serve your characters and give us insight into stuff like how they deal with intimacy, and arguably a good sex scene should easily double-read as both filthy smut and useful character development, but is the assumption there that the reader will randomly get off to it, or no…?
So yeah I was thinkin’ along those lines too!
Unjust Depths only continues to get better… save me misandrist heterophobes, misandrist heterophobes save me…
Alas, such hardships,
Makes sense for cable TV in the 80s, but for novels and stuff now…? Deeply mysterious…
Oh shit you’re right, the men have been marginalised and made the minority!! Wonderful stuff ngl.
:kbity:
well i mean, sex can tell you a lot about characters, right? at least if done well. we learn more about zachikova and arabella from it, same with norn and adelheid. though a lot of the time it doesn’t serve that purpose and idk what’s going on when people can just go watch/read actual porn
not only is it heterophobic, it’s misandrist!
Excited for kbity tbh
Idk if I learned a ton about Zachikova from it? Other than that I wouldn’t have expected her to enjoy getting her blood drank, lol. But the whole scene, non-sexy stuff included, does greatly inform my understanding of her, true! And Arabella actually, like she’s so instantly sympathetic when she’s being a sad puppy about her blood habit. My smol bean aphotic leviathan horror lesbian only wants a lil blood~!
As a treat!
But I actually asked this in a discord server 'cause I have no sense of social propriety:
So yeah I was thinkin’ along those lines too!