#metafiction

The purpose of erotica & pornography is titillating & thrilling the audience, not teaching them how they should/shouldn’t have sex or relationships.

So if anyone is getting their ideas about what healthy/safe sex/relationships are or should be like from the fictional situations in a piece of erotica, they are operating under a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of the art they are enjoying. This is user error.

Pics by guyaroch on instagram. golden globes x spotify pre party

Will simply realized in that moment that Mike is not heterosexual/normal. He is like "me," so Will.

In 2018, @rassilon-imprimatur's story in The Book of the Enemy introduced Faction Paradox readers to Auteur, a skeletal Archon with the uncanny power to literally rewrite reality — and metafictional delusions of grandeur to match. Ever since then, the Mad God of Writing's popped up hither and thither at Arcbeatle Press, but never quite as the headline feature.

Now, at long last, the official newcomer-friendly Volume One of his very own series is ready to invade your shelves, complete with fourteen exclusive interior illustrations, a crossword, and more surprises than you can count! Whether you're a long-time FP-head or coming fresh to the Auteurverse, I genuinely can't wait for more people to discover this thing…

Out now, in both digital and physical formats!

Auteur is a visionary, a genius, a god. The Author of All Creation. So he has claimed for centuries, and many believe him — who else could rewrite reality with one flick of a quill?

But the Cosmos has changed since he’s been away, and it keeps on changing. Old rules are broken, and new powers rise. What wonders and horrors might Auteur create, in his quixotic quest to get the final word? And what will he destroy?

Damian: That's what you're complaining about? They couldn't even bother to give me a proper characterization until much later on. And then it is one that does not align with my upbringing!

Stephanie: At least you weren't killed just because of misogyny

Dick: Yeah, I wonder how anyone let that through. But then again, I shouldn't expect anything else from writers who made me stuck as Ric for two years and all the, you know, Tarantula stuff

Jason: It's honestly like they just spin a wheel every day to figure out if I'm a villain, hero or anti-hero

Duke: Forget about the writers, the fans also have some... wild assumptions

Stephanie: Yeah, like that you're the normal one!

Cass: Or that I'm mute. Just there to give emotional support

Barbara: Or that the most traumatic thing to ever happen to me is framed as something good just because I became Oracle. I barely had one page of dialogue in that entire story!

Tim: At least they get one thing right.

Dick: And that is?

Tim: Bruce.

Jason: Yeah, what is up with that?! It feels like I've become his punching bag! Why is he considered a hero again when he is just plain abusive at this point?

Duke: Patriarchy