...nearly 4000 words what the hell is this, me. ESSAY: SEX, GENDER, SEXUALITY.

[vore_and_peace]

THE JINANA SEX ESSAY

O like you didn't know this would happen.

TOPICS COVERED: Sexuality in the Junkyard, Gender-Boundary Crossing, Jinana vs the Sexes, Sexual acts vs Sexual abuse vs Violence vs Emotional Bonding, Lack of Awareness of her own Sexual Dynamic, and In Camp.

Spoiler warnings through dds2

Comments

[ovoretherainbow]

This really is interesting, and you've brought up a lot of things I hadn't actually thought about before. (Even if what Cielo's atma placement could mean besides "WE WERE RUNNING OUT OF PLACES OKAY" is going to be nagging at me for the rest of the night.) And has cemented my desire to read some decent Jinana/Bat. I probably shouldn't admit that huh? XD And I had lots of interesting thoughts reading it but I have no idea what I was going to say so I'll just leave it at it was an awesome essay XD ♥

[vore_and_peace]

HMMM um ...maybe due to his agility in some way or ...the reason behind his agility or... his ...mental/emotional flexibility/ease of movement... um.

HAHA I ... keep intending to write some Jinana/Bat (BANANA, GAWD ;; ) but ... instead I look at pretty fanart.

THANK YOU and let me know if like. You think of it LOEV DISCUSSION.

[ovoretherainbow]

Actually emotional flexibility/openness kinda works! Because it's kinda up high enough that it leaves him a little more vulnerable looking to have it exposed than most the other's atmas (except of course Jinana's) and that works because emotionally he's both kind've vulnerable and balanced. And the atma's closer to the center of his body than a lot of them, which could indicate that he's closer to being balanced/enlightened, which I've talked about before.

Also randomly now that I think of it, it would've been awesome if Heat's atma had been on his stomach. Except I wonder what happens if an atma gets distorted by scar tissue XD

Banana is the best pairing name ever okay. Or maybe picking the best pairing name by hilarity value for horribly screwed up pairings isn't the best idea! XD

[vore_and_peace]

Hmm -- come to think of it, Lupa's is on his stomach, and he refuses to eat -- maybe it's falling back to the thing where for some of them it related to some way something's giving them trouble...

SOB BANANA ;;;;;;; [LICKS A BANANA]

[povertyprincess]

Hahaha, of all the people for Jinana to be listening to about human interaction. XD Tohru's so confused himself, and also JUST learning that love isn't all how it's portrayed in movies or the fumbling imitation that he and his friends got up to in middle school. XD

THAT SAID, I will pick up that thread eventually, I really liked where it was going. And Tohru is so enchanted by Jinana~ . . . god it just occurred to me that she's his type a lot personality-wise, but like. T-thankfully it hasn't occurred to him yet. @_@

[vore_and_peace]

SHE IS INTRIGUED BY WHAT HE HAS TO SAY just... very confused. ALSO NOTE I...couldn't find a way to bring it up in game but she totally had ...no real recognition of any significance in his tendency to change his style of dress lol.

OH GOOD I liked that too. If nothing else, we should carry that much over to camp, and continue like they know each other there? ....and oho REALLY TELL ME MORE.

[povertyprincess]

HAHA. So did Cass. We need to get back into doing Princess events, it'll be brought up ICly more

[shorttermplans]

RE: THE PUNK AESTHETIC:

Argila is incredibly reminiscent of the punk aesthetic, not only in the way you mention, but her color palate is very, very punk. Clashing colors are common! So are rips, mostly not faked because they will show up if you mosh long and hard enough! And the chaps go along well with that.

tl:dr; for agreeing with you. Mmm, tasty essay.

[vore_and_peace]

Thank you for this. I don't know nearly enough about the movement/aesthetic, and it's fantastic to hear more about it and get confirmation in that.

♥

[originalsinner]

I don't really have anything to say )= but I AGREE? |D O Bat. I sort of love him actually.

[vore_and_peace]

I, I kind of do too.

Though not the pairing name. The pairing name makes me cry blood.

[moveurdeadfros]

Man I keep trying not to spoil myself for these games but you people are so awesome since I'm playing them now but I CAN'T HELP MYSELF.

Ehem. In any case, long essays like these always really inspires me to think what my own characters are like in their heads, and now I kind of dread letting Brook talk to Jinana because it would be Brook to talk to her at great lengths what he feels is love and feelings and such, because, really, The Junkyard is like as far away from what Brook considers Good and Just as they come, but then I remember that I am the least qualified person in the universe to talk about those things and that makes me sad.

[vore_and_peace]

Hey, I love Brook, and you're fantastic at him. Firs tof all, I sincerely doubt you're the least qualified person in the world to talk about love and feelings because, well, you're human, you have feelings, and given how great a Brook you play, I don't think you need to worry about feeling the feelings you need for Brook. S-second of all I think you're awesome and I want to play with Brook and it'd make me sad in my kokoros if my thinky thoughts made you less confident with that. :(