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Sunday, August 07, 2005
I'm weirder than I thought
Niji pretty much nailed me on the head (figuratively speaking) in a comment about the strange turn this blog's taken. Writing a new story every night (almost) for 101 Nights of Wahine Trouble has not only resulted in less time spent on Cult of Pop, it's also made Cult of Pop a little more... what's the polite word? ...
Smut-minded.
... Yeah, more smut-minded than before.
But what exactly qualifies as smut-minded for me? In writing 101 Nights, I've touched on kinds of intimacy that I don't personally enjoy but wanted to convey in a realistically sympathetic manner. (To set the record clear, neither "Hypothetical" or "Appreciation" are autobiographical in any manner whatsoever. I have issues, but not those in particular.)
And yet, there are certain preoccupations in my life, and those seem to come out clearly in my writing, whether I try to hide it or flaunt it for all it's worth. There's something akin to psychological excavation when looking over things one has written, a reflection of one's moods and biases. It's why I've rarely held onto things I'd written years ago, fearful of little self-revelations I had not seen at the time but which glare at my present-day self like a bad therapy session confession.
My contributions to the newly-formed sex wiki SugarHive are smutty (as they should be, I guess) but not very run-of-the-mill. I ended up being the first contributor outside of Sam Sugar himself, so in a way I'm helping set the tone. And there's something positively breathtaking about watching a wiki grow out of nothing: it's like watching time lapse photography of a plant grow and flower... except I'm feedint this plant with drops of geek blood.
I just thought of whatever items I could write a line or two about and proceeded to add them. No rhyme or reason, no set game plan, just whatever struck my fancy as worth mentioning in a database of sex-related information.
So. Setting aside some general lists and a little editing, what were the new entries I contributed on this first day at The Hive? In chronological order...
Hard Gay
Rorikon
Bukkake
Pamela
Literature
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Nimbus 2000
Portnoy's Complaint
Coprophagia
Gravity's Rainbow
Ran Monbu
AV idol
Comic Books
All of which makes me wonder: What the hell's going on in my head? I start with fringe Japanese culture and sexual fetishes, detour into discussions of literature, then return to Japanese fringe culture and finish with comic books.
This is what I'm comfortable writing about on a sex wiki. Not adult video industry information, not techniques and positions... Not even basic definitions and anatomical information, which would be a good foundation for a new sex wiki.
No, what I wanted to include is mention of a faux gay leather boy comedian, a children's toy that was used as a vibrator, a scene in a book where somebody eats somebody else's feces, and a porn star who looks like Matsuura Aya. And comic books. Because there's no way I'll ever be able to escape comic books in my life, no matter how hard I tried.
At this point in a face-to-face conversation, I'd be singing "Welcome to My World" as ironically as possible.
Beyond all that, I fit in specific preferences and some rather strange jokes to the lists I added. Under Adult Film Performers, I made sure to include Kitty Yung, Ai Iijima, and Nao Oikawa. Kitty because she's rocked my world for years now, Ai because I was going to write a stub on ganguro, and Nao because you have to give props to the AV queen. Under Fetishes, I included "Back of the Knee Fetish" along with other more traditional body parts that earn fetishistic worship. I'm waiting to see how long it'll take before somebody either deletes it or writes a detailed entry on obsessing over the back of the knee.
In the Comic Books entry, I included Jim Mooney, Superboy, and Cannibal Romance in various lists... The first two require some detailed fanboy knowledge to see the humor, and I included them to see who gets these bits of arcana and writes entries about them. And of course, Cannibal Romance because no discussion with me is ever complete until I mention cannibalism at least once.
Thinking about all this, I guess I can only say: I love the fucking internet.
And I promise I'm going to be more diligently pop (specifically Jpop) again, here in Cult of Pop. Especially since I have another project hatching that encourage a resumption to normalcy - well, what qualifies for normal here.
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Smut-minded.
... Yeah, more smut-minded than before.
But what exactly qualifies as smut-minded for me? In writing 101 Nights, I've touched on kinds of intimacy that I don't personally enjoy but wanted to convey in a realistically sympathetic manner. (To set the record clear, neither "Hypothetical" or "Appreciation" are autobiographical in any manner whatsoever. I have issues, but not those in particular.)
And yet, there are certain preoccupations in my life, and those seem to come out clearly in my writing, whether I try to hide it or flaunt it for all it's worth. There's something akin to psychological excavation when looking over things one has written, a reflection of one's moods and biases. It's why I've rarely held onto things I'd written years ago, fearful of little self-revelations I had not seen at the time but which glare at my present-day self like a bad therapy session confession.
My contributions to the newly-formed sex wiki SugarHive are smutty (as they should be, I guess) but not very run-of-the-mill. I ended up being the first contributor outside of Sam Sugar himself, so in a way I'm helping set the tone. And there's something positively breathtaking about watching a wiki grow out of nothing: it's like watching time lapse photography of a plant grow and flower... except I'm feedint this plant with drops of geek blood.
I just thought of whatever items I could write a line or two about and proceeded to add them. No rhyme or reason, no set game plan, just whatever struck my fancy as worth mentioning in a database of sex-related information.
So. Setting aside some general lists and a little editing, what were the new entries I contributed on this first day at The Hive? In chronological order...
Hard Gay
Rorikon
Bukkake
Pamela
Literature
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Nimbus 2000
Portnoy's Complaint
Coprophagia
Gravity's Rainbow
Ran Monbu
AV idol
Comic Books
All of which makes me wonder: What the hell's going on in my head? I start with fringe Japanese culture and sexual fetishes, detour into discussions of literature, then return to Japanese fringe culture and finish with comic books.
This is what I'm comfortable writing about on a sex wiki. Not adult video industry information, not techniques and positions... Not even basic definitions and anatomical information, which would be a good foundation for a new sex wiki.
No, what I wanted to include is mention of a faux gay leather boy comedian, a children's toy that was used as a vibrator, a scene in a book where somebody eats somebody else's feces, and a porn star who looks like Matsuura Aya. And comic books. Because there's no way I'll ever be able to escape comic books in my life, no matter how hard I tried.
At this point in a face-to-face conversation, I'd be singing "Welcome to My World" as ironically as possible.
Beyond all that, I fit in specific preferences and some rather strange jokes to the lists I added. Under Adult Film Performers, I made sure to include Kitty Yung, Ai Iijima, and Nao Oikawa. Kitty because she's rocked my world for years now, Ai because I was going to write a stub on ganguro, and Nao because you have to give props to the AV queen. Under Fetishes, I included "Back of the Knee Fetish" along with other more traditional body parts that earn fetishistic worship. I'm waiting to see how long it'll take before somebody either deletes it or writes a detailed entry on obsessing over the back of the knee.
In the Comic Books entry, I included Jim Mooney, Superboy, and Cannibal Romance in various lists... The first two require some detailed fanboy knowledge to see the humor, and I included them to see who gets these bits of arcana and writes entries about them. And of course, Cannibal Romance because no discussion with me is ever complete until I mention cannibalism at least once.
Thinking about all this, I guess I can only say: I love the fucking internet.
And I promise I'm going to be more diligently pop (specifically Jpop) again, here in Cult of Pop. Especially since I have another project hatching that encourage a resumption to normalcy - well, what qualifies for normal here.
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My previous comment wasn't a complaint about the contents of your recent entries. It was more of an observation that I childishly blabbed out loud. XP
By the way, it's niji -- small caps -- like dream. :)
All I ask is that you bring back the hot 15-year-old girls on the side of the page. Hard Gay, while both hard and gay, is not a sexy teenage pop singer!
I rather love Hard Gay and don't mind if he stays simply because he's so funny.
Ah, niji, I was feeling guilty about not doing enough Jpop anyways. Whenever the latest ten entries on the blog aren't at least 60% Jpop, it feels a bit off to me for some reason...
And while I only intended the Hard-Gay-centric sidebar to last the weekend, by yesterday I was already tiring of it. So I set up an all-under-15 idols sidebar now! I call it my "Not Ready For High School" sidebar.