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I think that is a literal storyline in Belgarath the Sorcerer. The wizard, Belgarath, spends thousands of years monitoring and manipulating various family lines. One of those is a line of dryads who are tiny and all female. He was "forced" to mate with them or they would kill him with bows, but he didn't really complain about it. He is able to avoid these "conflicts" in the future after discovering chocolate makes them orgasm.
Some times you don't think about how weird this shit gets until you explain it to someone else.
Chocolate making women orgasm is common knowledge to anyone who's seen a dove commercial.
Every anime ever
Were the dryads 10,000 year old 12-year-old girls?
I hate this aspect so much. Like, bro, can't you just make cool cartoons without sexualizing the characters?
Or just make the sexualised characters slightly more age appropriate. Gimme hot moms in their 30s or something
Everything in life is directly or indirectly about sex. We're literally machines "designed" for the purpose of procreation, i.e. sex. Just makes sense that all our stories are about it as well :D
While one can squint hard to see the connections to procreation with enough steps in between, that doesn't mean everything should be sexualized. Working a farm to produce food food is necessary for one to live long enough to reproduce, but farming isn't about sex.
Plant sex
Plant/insect/plant interracial threesomes. Insect prostitution. Animal sex. Animal prostitution. Animal masturbation, forced impregnation.
Every single fertility god and goddess throughout history is giving you the side-eye right now.
Obviously people like sex and want things sexualized, otherwise it wouldn't be created. I like sexualized comics. If you don't like it, then no one forces you to select to read/watch the comics that are sexualized. Obviously, since many people like sexualized stuff, you will have to deal with the (probably smaller) selection of comics that don't do it, of which I'm sure they exist.
I just don't understand the need to hate things like this. I don't hate it if a comic isn't sexualized, even though that's not what I prefer.
exasperated sigh LOOK they're MENTALLY 10,000 YEARS OLD but only THE BODY is 12 OKAY???? IT'S TOTALLY NOT WEIRD ~~MOM~~ GUYS!!!1!1one!
Also their 10,000 year old mental facilities just happen to align with a 12 year old's personality because of their super long life spans! That's totally not weird at all!
Bad memories since I read last week about David and Leigh Eddings having both spent a year in prison for horrific abuse of their adopted children :(
Well... fuck.
The simple word "extensive" on Wikipedia says plenty.
Yeah, I loved those books.
dusty unopened book noises
I still have them in my collection. All of Eddings, except High Hunt and The Losers. Now I don't want to give them away, yet I no longer cherish them :(
Yeah, I loved pretty much all Eddings wrote, because it's such simple, light-hearted style of fantasy. Even thinking the Death of the Author (they're not profiting from the books you already own, and are quite literally dead so nobody suffers or benefits from you owning or reading the books) it leaves such a bad taste in your mouth. Since now every time you read or even think of the books, you remember what pieces of shit the authors were and it taints the whole thing.
I always fear reading up about authors (and musicians, actors... etc.) because so many of them turn out to be such pieces of shit and that ruins everything
I have the Dangerous album from Michael Jackson, shelved for decades without listening, for pretty much the same reason :(
Yeah... It sucks. I have some Marion Zimmer-Bradleys books in the shelf that have been unread for years because I learned of the author's pedophilia when I was in the middle of that series. Really soured the whole thing. At least with Eddings they were caught and punished and didn't do evil shit for decades afterwards, so you can keep up some hope they became better people in the end...
I knew about the allegations against MZB, luckily I never got into her books, so it's not a big loss for me - but just now I got curious and did some reading - Is this article legitimately by MZB's daughter? https://thembeforeus.com/moira-greyland-i-was-born-into-a-family-of-famous-gay-pagan-authors-in-the-late-sixties/
That's a sad outcome - of course it is understandable that as a traumatized victim she has a risk to have a warped vision of reality - but holy cow, to blame homosexuality as the root of the problem, that's losing the plot entirely.
Yikes! That's even worse than what I knew about the whole ordeal. What a sad outcome indeed... :(
that intro in the kitchen is still stuck in my head
fuck them both, so disappointed
it gets easier when you learn the author was a piece of shit
ruins a beloved childhood book
I still don't really understand this sentiment. Could you please explain why this is the case for you? I really mean this as curiosity.
I can certainly understand current things, like if there is a book author right now that is a piece of shit and they try to sell a new book, of course I won't buy it. Also not support their old stuff. But why exactly is their effect in the past tainted by this? LotR is still an amazing book, talking about lots of good things like friendship, loyalty, self-sacrifice etc, creating a beautifully interesting fantasy world. Why is this ruined, why can you not appreciate this now that you know the author is a piece of shit?
For context, David and Leigh Eddings were convicted in the late 60s for child abuse in South Dakota. They literally put their adopted children in cages.
Ok yeah then I completely missed everything :) thanks for the context
I think they're talking about David and Leigh Eddings, authors of Belgarath the Sorcerer.
Didn't know that :) don't know that book then, thought I was just forgetting something about LotR. But my original question still stands.
Well, in this case it's a book that features small sexualized female creatures, which is already pretty ick, but then you put the fact that the Eddings' went to jail on multiple charges of "extensive physical child abuse" and that's a whole new layer of closely connected grossness.
It's one thing to accept death of the author when the material isn't related to whatever it is the author did. It's a bit more unsettling when the work seems like it was influenced by those same proclivities.
Understandable, thanks for the correction :) as I thought it was about LotR, my comment is basically completely irrelevant xD
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink."
So just regular humans then, got it.