fluffygirlfriend
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DieselBrain
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something that takes a long time to unlearn (and im still in the process of unlearning!) is like, the shame we're taught to internalize at like, the idea of sullying a character's "canon" features with horny/fetish versions. Even as a tiddy artist, its easy to kinda get sucked into a black hole of internally appealing to ideas of respectability. Policing which characters I'm "allowed" to embiggen the tiddies of based on whether there's already "something there to work with", because to do so with a character who isnt already at least a lil curvy would be interpreted as "cringe" by some unknown onlooker.

but like, thats dumb! If youre making art FOR fetish purposes, and you have a fetish for unrealistically big tits (or any other number of things) nothing SHOULD stop us from just indulging in that even when the source material might have them flat as a board. I drew Kimberly Jackson from Streets milf'd up with tits bigger than her torso cuz i fucking find that hot and i thought she'd look hot with those features. It's not even that i think her canon design should have big tits, i just wanna draw her, and many other characters, that way!

ive poked fun at some artists's tendencies to blow up character proportions in the past but frankly those folks were braver for living in their truth than i was.


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yeahhh if you're still unlearning I've got AGES to go lmao

I think this brings up a good point that it's like, a fair and perfectly valid region of fetish art, and maybe people get huffy about it because it often becomes conflated with being a thing that all porn artists do or are expected to do. I guess I gotta stop bullying people who draw shiver with titties rip

it feels like one of those things where like, well intentioned critiques of patriarchal gaze within media eventually just turned into thought-ending-cliches for a lot of folks.

like, remember all those tumblr blogs and old subreddits from the late 00's and early 2010s that would focus on like, pointing out fucky female anatomy in comics n such? Waistlines w/o organs, spines bent beyond repair, etc. Bringing up reasonable media criticism re: like, hey! It's kinda fucked up the aesthetic standards we apply to women across media, and how this reverberates into real life!

but then like a decade later and now you have folks who will look at purposefully stylized bodies or, yeah, fetish content, and apply the same logic and it just ends up feeling like no fun allowed shit :/
it's also how you get bone headed takes like the idea that smaller breasts are fundamentally "less sexual" than larger ones, REGARDLESS of presentation or context which is! Shitty! That sucks!

anyway, ill probably add Shiver to the fanart list eventually and draw her with massive honkers too cuz fuck it

A lot of my development this year has been trying to reconcile my art with my feminist beliefs. I'm actually hyper-conscious of things like male gaze, objectification and stuff like that. I think I exaggerate the contradiction a little, I definitely know when something bothers me and my art doesn't so it's not like I'm being a hypocrite or anything. But it's definitely for a niche audience.

gotta trust your gut a lil. and i think contradiction is inevitable when creating. We are imperfect creatures in an imperfect world after all, and a lot of fetish and sexual fantasy can operate on seemingly contradictory levels.

it's weird! but thats part of why i enjoy creating in this space.