Alien

Impressive work !

 Leto the high priestess of the Kormic Order.

Costume by Les Légendes d'Azcor

Photo by Gary Gréteau 

I can speak a little about how we got here as a fanfiction community tho.  Back in the 90s when writing slash was still not really the fandom mainstream, there were a lot of women writing m/m sex as if it was just m/f sex.  And there started to be a lot of call-outs written about how necessary things like preparation and lube were for anal sex.

And it at some point went overboard.  To the point where if you DON’T write extensive finger-preparation you will almost definitely get people commenting on it negatively.  I often will include this kind of stuff just to avoid anyone getting upset with me.

But the most important idea to keep in mind when writing sex is that EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT.  Someone might need a huge amount of time to ease into anal and someone else might need zero prep.  Some people orgasm from something and others don’t, etc. 

girl’s friend: “wow.. thats so creepy…”

I think the reason some anthros look really strange (I’m looking at you, Skyrim) is because animal skulls don’t attach to their spines the same way ours do. Our spines and skulls are very vertical, but many animals’ are closer to horizontal.

Some people solve this by giving the animal skulls a human skull shape on the back. But, to me it makes them look somehow bald(??) and just kinda weird in general. If, instead, you change their necks to curve so that the spine still connects where their four legged counterparts’ do, they no longer look yucky! (And also don’t need a hair-do!)

This seems especially applicable for animals like big cats, cows, and lizards — animals whose spines attach very horizontally to their heads.

Anyway, enjoy some more art I did while having these very specific thoughts.

Textured modern obi by Homsue.

This smocking technique was used in GoT by Michele Carragher to create Daenerys’ dragon scales textured dress:

Tao Okamoto photographed by Greg Kadel

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

Consent. Is the culture open to sharing this thing? (& don’t cheat by finding one person who consents while most of the culture disagrees.)

Context. If a culture is open to sharing a thing but it is a thing of great religious significance, take the time to learn what is a respectful way to treat the thing. Probably don’t use it as random decoration or sexualize it unless that’s what it’s for.