#pipit talks

Internet users stop yaasifying women for not being conventionally attractive challenge (difficulty: impossible)

For those who don't know, I'm on the ace spectrum, and I also have disabling health issues which affect my intimate life. I am not going to go into any more detail than that, as it's private. That said, though, it proves to be a challenge when writing smut, as I'm approaching it from the perspective of an outside observer.

I think sex scenes can be used just like any other scene; like a fight scene, I enjoy writing them from the viewpoint of exploring characters, and ideally progressing their growth and/or the plot in each encounter. Not every sex scene will do this - I've written smut one-shots which don't really explore characters, and those are because it's actually a fun kind of scene for me to write from a technical standpoint, outside of storytelling.

I see very often that people reduce erotica to just being mindless porn, or indicating that writing with smut in it has inherently less substance and worth than writing without it, regardless of how carefully written the smut is. I pretty vehemently disagree with this viewpoint.

Sex scenes, in my opinion, are a writing tool, just like any other. Writing good sex is a skill of its own and it's one I'm still developing, but it's absolutely something that has worth, and I think it's a huge shame that so much of the writing community treats it with some kind of contempt, as if it's somehow inherently lesser than, when sex is an incredibly important and human topic, and suggesting it shouldn't be talked about can be an incredibly slippery slope to the kind of tight-lipped purity culture attitude which leads to shaming people for having sex within queer communities, and other such dangerous things.

1: it's really not that explicit, especially considering the rampant porn bots running wild on this site 2: I tagged everything correctly and marked it as mature content, so how is it even against community guidelines?? 3: I've posted more explicit artwork before and they've not had any problem

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For the record, this is such bullshit. Neon had a full-time job before joining Valorant. She was a soldier at Kingdom; this is how she met Chamber. This is fully established lore - there's no way she's NOT an adult.

This rumour was spread by people who hate this ship in particular for god-knows-what reason, who made up fake ages for agents when the developers have specifically said that they have no canon ages, but are all adults. Them all being adults is also backed up by Viper confirming it when Raze and KJ got together and the no-fraternisation rule got abolished.

I wanted to share the origin post behind the supply closet sex fic hahah. This kind of became a meme with my following and friends on Twitter, and it snowballed into what eventually had to be turned into a fic.