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…
: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!