Crazy In The Coconut

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

BANG BANG BANG but it's dragon ball [og song by BBpanzu]

It is long ago since I was here the last time – about a year now? O.o

Why? Because I needed a break; drawing just did not work the way I wanted it to anymore

Instead I concentrated on writing to get a distance to drawing

(I fell in love head over heels with „Detroit: Become Human“ and had to write a fanfiction to it; if someone is interested^^ → https://www.fanfiktion.de/s/5b96deaf0001c2ae37882957/1/Detroit-The-Time-After   but only in german, sorry^^“)

But now Im back and drawing is fun again :D (in any case most of the time^^“)

though I have drawn this picture over a year ago I think it is a good entry for coming back again :D

This scene:

Me after the scene:

In the real world:

Yes

In fanfiction:

No

‘dubcon’ is a fic genre where a victim’s consent to a sexual situation is questionable.  Tropes that fall into this category include: sex pollen, ‘aliens made them do it’, drunk sex, fics that start out noncon but the victim enthusiastically consents partway through, and many others.

In a real world situation, if a person is incapable of consenting or doesn’t agree to a sex act the whole way through it, it’s rape.

While ‘dubious consent’ cannot possibly describe a real life situation of any kind, the word ‘dubcon’ has very specific connotations within the realm of fanfiction. Like its close sister ‘noncon’, it is a safe word used to describe a variety of rape fantasies without using the word ‘rape’, which both protects the creators of these works and protects survivors who are looking for these kinds of fics from having to look at a word with such strong connotations.

‘why not just call it all noncon then?’ because dubcon communicates one or two very specific mindsets of the victims:

their mind is altered by some outside force to cause them to desire participating in sexual acts

during the sexual situation they are in a state of consent

The situation may not be real-world levels of consenting, but the victim is not perceiving themselves as a victim; they desire the sex act. In noncon, the implication is the opposite: the victim is not desiring the sex act.  Being able to tell the two genres of fictional rape apart is extremely important for anyone looking for a fic in that genre to read, particularly for survivors.  Knowing the mindset of the victim(s) can be the difference between a safe fantasy and a triggering (or perhaps just squicky) experience.

‘Dubcon contributes to the mindset that victims can be ‘made to like it!’’ No: it’s a safe way to interact with a concept that real world rape culture forces on all of us. It arises from the same narrative, but as the situation is entirely fictional, it actually returns the power to the reader to choose whether or not they are enjoying it.  And by openly acknowledging that the situation is not truly consensual, the label ‘dubcon’ actually increases awareness of this gray area’s moral and real life implications.

If you don’t like it, that’s okay: nobody has to like anything.  Many people are squicked by non- and dub-con works.  But words are important, and very specific warnings and tags protect people from harm.  And isn’t that all we all want?

Heard the news that there's a dragonball movie coming up in 2022. I'm kinda hoping for a Moro arc movie because I WANT to see Vegeta throwing a not-exactly-a-spirit-bomb-but-close-enough-so-I'm-just-gonna-call-it-spirit-bomb on a big screen.. and I liked Moro, he was an interesting and intimidating villain