@GlassesBlu Yeah, that was what I was thinking. I was just wondering if it manifested that way in anyone else's stuff.
"In the future, we will have pubes that grow to look manscaped, because Genetic Engineering! In fantasy worlds, A Wizard Did It!"
Now I'm remembering Ghastly's Ghastly Comic: "In the 1990s, the Japanese government's fear of pubic hair became so extreme they built a satellite which emitted radiation to remove the gene for pubic hair from our species."
It might just be his tendency to be possessed by the Ghost talking, but if you'd asked me to name a Star Wars character who would manscape under those circumstances, Hux would certainly be on the shortlist. But it wouldn't just be A Thing, it would be a rant about how that barbarian Ren doesn't understand the principles of Hygiene(TM) like he does. :::PPP
i would accept this. i would accept it being an imperial-core-worlds-fancy-people culture thing that was being awkwardly imitated by first order officer class types, too. that would be kinda fitting honestly. what drives me up the wall is the assumption that everyone always has and always will cut their pubes. when in fact basically everyone except american millennials goes "they only grow to a certain length naturally, and nobody sees em but the person i'm bumping uglies with, uglies being the operative word, crotches just aren't a pretty place, why the hell would i put effort into styling my pubic hair???" was this an old man rant? probably yes. i dont take it back, though.
Spoiler: nsfw Writers in their thirties failing to understand basic anatomy. No, you CAN still stick your tongue up someone's vagina if they still have a hymen, it doesn't cover the whole thing. How does this guy think periods work?
Spoiler: re: spoiler Honestly every time I see shit like that, I become lowkey convinced that the author is a cis guy who hasn’t been anywhere near a vagina since he was born.
Spoiler: nsfw The same guy also has repeated scenes of stuffing sugary food in the vag, so I'm inclined to agree.
90% of writers for my otp characterise them in a way that doesn’t line up with my interpretation of them. I guess they’re going with a technically valid reading but they’re wrong.
Spoiler: Non con hey fanfic it would be real nice if you laid off on the "having your rapists baby will totally fix you!" shit
I'm making an exhaustive taxonomy of answers to questions in fanfiction summaries. Anyone want to help contribute? :::PPP
Spoiler: cont At the very least it wasn't a "rape is love" thing but it still ended up reading like pro-life propaganda....
Author, I know you’re writing wish-fulfillment with this time-travel kidfic, but I don’t think you get the extent of the issues this kid would be dealing with, even at 4, especially with superpowers. Once little Sakura managed to convince Gaara of the Desert that she for-seriously-real wanted to be friends, there would not have been a way to get her away from him that didn’t involve bloodshed. No, reasoning with him would not work. He has no reason to trust adults, no reason to trust anyone. All he would hear is the threat. And, yeah. I know. This poor fucking kid. But it takes more than “Aaaw, I’ll be your friend!” and “Hey, Gaara’s dad! Be nicer to your kid!” to resolve a situation involving such profound, ongoing abuse, and that’s in a society that doesn’t consider things like what Gaara is being put through to be good and right and normal. I mean, fuck. Even with a non-superpowered kid in a situation like that, I wouldn’t expect things to end without generous distribution of some seriously nasty bite-marks.
Hell, convincing Naruto that you seriously-for-real want to be friends with him would've resulted in him being ride-or-die for you - he's already ride-or-die for his team when they're acting like they'd rather he drop dead! Considering how much Gaara doesn't trust anyone, if you managed to get through that barrier? Yeah, he's not gonna let anyone get between them. Ever. For any reason. And he'd lose it if someone tried to separate them (and take it as a betrayal if Sakura tried to leave).
