HeartLinda
Commenting on clop, yiff, and occasionally other erotica. Highly NSFW. You can call me Craig. (Check out the directory for ways you can help me categorize my content better.) [This is a mirror of my Tumblr blog. Please read "About This Site" for more information.]
Never forget; you may have been wrong about something in your lifetime, but you’ll never be as wrong as this guy.
^^^
Funny, the first My Little Pony Rule 34 I ever found (back before I got into “Friendship is Magic” but still after it got a sizable fanbase) wasn’t from FiM. XD
No, nothing physical or anything dramatic like that. An emotional issue I suppose. Maybe more of a social problem.
What it comes down to is this—most of my immediate family doesn’t know I draw porn or any kind of erotica. This is intentional, because I’m quite sure they’d judge me severely for it.
Perhaps I shouldn’t care. But I respect my family, and I’d like for them to respect me for who I am. And frankly, expressing sexuality through art is very much an aspect of who I am. I feel like I’m hiding a part of me from them. In general, it’s not a big deal. But it can be stressful sometimes.
I just got back from a long extended discussion with my mom. I talked to her about some things generally going on in the brony community. Somehow, the conversation evolved to the idea of how all the teenage boys who are making the fandom unsafe for the primary target audience, little girls, by posting NSFW content without discretion. I wasted no time in tell her about Safe Search Wrap Up and PoniesforParents, as well as the bronies who support these programs. She was glad to hear about it. But we continued to talk about things peripheral to the topic, and basically, she expressed this general loathing for bronies who drew “preverted” material. She obviously knew not all bronies were like that, since I was her child and a brony.
But consistently she seemed to express that bronies who made “perverted” content were kinda scummy and needed to be dealt with. Now, I really love my mom, and I respect her deeply. She’s full of wisdom and the person I am today is pretty much thanks to her—I think I’m a pretty awesome person, so I’m grateful for that. But for all her wisdom and insight, my mom is unfortunately very condemning of erotica of any kind. She’s a bit of a prude when it comes to overt sexuality. She’s very open minded about sexuality in general. For example, she knows that I have a sexual interest in the characters of MLP, and she see’s nothing wrong with that.
But porn is another matter altogether. To her, it’s inherently demeaning, perverted, and irredeemably sick. Any kind of explicit exploration of sexuality that is outside of one’s own mind is wrong. And as you might guess, I find this incredibly upsetting. Her view is generally consistent with the rest of my family. This is why I keep it a secret.
I feel like I’m harboring a secret that could potentially damage my relationship with my family. Especially with my mom. I don’t want to tell them, for fear of this. But I get physically distressed and ill having to keep it a secret when discussions like this come up—because it’s so integral to who I am.
I don’t know for sure how my mom would react if she found out. Maybe she’d be more understanding than I thought. But more likely, she’ll just have a nigh impossible time accepting that porn is just something that I do. Maybe she’ll tolerate it, try to ignore it’s existence. Ultimately, it’s not like I need her see my work. I just feel like I need to have that part of my personality validated by the family that I respect the most.
I’ve planned arguments and thoughts and have had pretend debates with her in my head on the subject, almost in preparation for the eventually that she’ll find out some day. And here, I’d like to make a call to my followers—especially my female followers. From your perspective as a woman, what kind of points do you feel would really validate my case to hear. I know I know my own mother best, and I’ve really spent a lot of time thinking about it from the perspective of a woman. But perhaps there is some insight that escapes me. If there is any advice you could send my way, that would be awesome. And just knowing there are females out there who are cool with porn will help validate this too my mom as well, as she’s confident that porn is largely a male interest. But until I’m confident, or I find myself unable to back out of it, I’m going to keep things a secret. And a weighty secret it is. I don’t want to sound melodramtic, and really this isn’t a consistent issue. But when it does come up, I just don’t know what to do.
Anyways, thank you for taking the time to read this. I promise we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled pony butts soon. <3
([A]nd really this isn’t a consistent issue. [emphasis added] I was genuinely confused for a bit when I read that, because this suggests that your views/your family’s views/this issue changes over time. [“Consistent” means “not changing over time”.] I have a feeling that “persistent” [“coming up often”] is meant here, that is, the issue doesn’t come up a lot.)
Not female, but… I have to say that my personal situation isn’t very comparable to this, but I’ll give this brief glimpse into my personal life. My parents know that I consume pornography, but they don’t know the “nitty-gritty” details of it. They just assume that it’s the regular live-action sort. I’ve explained to my dad that I go beyond that, but that’s about it. (My dad knows I’m a brony, but as far as I know, he doesn’t even know what Rule 34 is.)
Morally, my parents are generally against it. Or, maybe my mom used to be against it but not anymore. (It hasn’t come up between us in a long time.) My dad, though, is definitely against it now, but he acknowledges that he doesn’t have any real control over it (especially legally).
I am not sure how you would even bring up this issue before you begin to make your case. Or am I missing something here? Either way, it doesn’t seem as if you’re asking about that here, so I’ll assume you have something worked out. :/
Of course, the first thing to do is understand her side. Why does she think that pornography is bad, especially as opposed to sexuality in general? If you already know the answer to that, maybe you could follow up with another post and we could explore her justification. Otherwise, make your own case. Why do you think porn is okay? I personally say that it’s a good way to express sexuality deal with sexual frustration (if consumed properly, of course).
I honestly don’t see what gender has to do with this. So what if porn is primarily a male interest? Or is your mother concerned about the exploitation/objectification/something similar of women? I was planning on making a full discussion out of this, but, for now, I’ll just say that porn is not about gender (think gay porn).
Well, that’s what I can offer on this. It’s not very good in terms of advice. Good luck.
(You all can have your butts. I prefer crotch shots from the anterior. XD)
Hrm. Was searching porn, went to a site I hadn’t been to before.
Only to have a big ass warning messages accusing me of searching for child porn or something like that. If this site had anything like that, I certainly wasn’t aware.
I didn’t bother to read the message in detail, as I was furiously trying to close the whole tab. Every attempt to close it instead just popped up a similar big message saying the FBI or CIA or something tracked my IP and knew where I was. To get out of it, I had to kill the browser from the processes dialog window.
Frankly, this seems like a scam, attempt to scare the crap out of me, or an attempt to install malware. I don’t really believe any organization had anything to do with it. Even still, it’s got me all freaked out and paranoid.
Anyone else had to deal with it?
I haven’t seen anything like this, but some of the other responses indicate that it was probably malware. Yeah, I’d recommend an antivirus scan of your computer after something like this.
author-lapis-lazuli writes: “We are not Perverts”
At some point in the very recent past, there was a twitter conversation between the show’s creators with some disdain over the sudden creation of Maud R34, in which a member of the fandom termed everyone who created such work “Perverts.”
No one corrected him.
After seeing that, I felt the need to say something.
We are not ‘perverts’
We are creators ourselves. We write, we sing, we act, we draw, we create art, we breathe life into characters.. We do these things because they bring joy and happiness into peoples lives. We do them for money, or for the challenge, or just for fun. Because they make people laugh, or cry, or think and look at the world in a whole new light. Because sometimes, they give someone a moment of pleasure in a world all too devoid of such things.
And many of us like ponies.
Why do we like them? We like the way they look and the way they move. We like female characters who are smart, interesting, and complex. We admire them for their courage, and we love them for how we relate to them in so many different ways.
We love to make stories about them struggling and succeeding. We love to make stories about them falling in love with one another. We love to make stories with them having relationships and conflicts and emotions. We love to give them a society with a rich, detailed, holistic world, and then make them live in it.
And some of us like to imagine them experiencing intimacy. We like to treat them like the ‘adult’ people they seem to be, and to wonder about what that portion of their world might be like.
I put my work behind the appropriate age walls. I make it clear that adult activities are going on, right from the outset. I do not make my work available easily to those whom society deems ‘too young’ to see it. I abide by the rules. I keep things honest. I try my best to do right within the rules that society has established.
And so do many other creators like me. We tag our pictures NSFW and our fan fictions “Mature”. We create these things for other adults like us. To create a kind of art that expresses our innermost emotions, be they profound or primal. And yet, we are all too often lumped in with the bad seeds. We are all too often called a lot of very nasty things, simply by virtue of the art we create.
But people forget that that’s what art is about, pushing the limits and going beyond the every day and the ordinary. It’s about taking something we all know about and giving it a new vision. Something like the night sky, or a scene of people standing around a park, or a mother and her child, or a cartoon pony, and we create something of them from the emotions and feelings within us all. So much of art explores that most ancient and deep of human emotions we call sex and intimacy. We have applied those emotions to mythical beings, to gods, to angels, to demons, and to so much more. Yet when we apply it to something new or youthful, we are called ‘perverts.’
I cannot claim to speak for the other creators like me. But I am sick and tired of this fandom treating me like a leper because I dare to be an adult and see these characters in that light. Because I dare to look at the world of MLP and say ‘I can create an amazing story from this world.” Because I dare to think these characters could stand to be treated like people, and not like plaster idols sitting on a shelf.
We are ‘perverts’ because we dare to suggest the stork doesn’t bring babies. We are ‘perverts’ because we dare to suggest that these women might be unconventionally sexual like many real world women are. We are ‘perverts’ because we see love, and we treat it with maturity and respect instead of some kind of puritan ideal.
I wrote this because there are too many people in this fandom and outside of it who judge people like me because we dare to express myself artistically in this way. And frankly, I’m tired of it. I am tired of being the whipping boy for the rest of the fandom to offer up as a sacrifice so that the meanies who don’t like them liking ponies will go away.
We like to say that we oppose bullying, and yet far too many of us are content to play the bully ourselves. Far too many of us are happy to point at someone else and laugh about “How creepy those clop-artists act.” and “What a bunch of neckbeard perverts with their love pillows! They’ll never have girlfriends!” or ‘We like ponies, but we’re not like those FREAKS! Go judge them instead of us!”
So next time you come across an artist who wants to write or draw or sing about a less than chaste love, I hope you take a moment. The next time you want to sneer or gasp in horror at those of us who make more adult oriented works, I want you to stop and think for a second.
We’re humans, just like you. We have desires, and hopes, and dreams, just like you. We’re artists, just like many of you. Most of us are decent people. Most of us do the best we can to abide by the rules. And just like you, some of us are bad apples who like to flaunt the rules, because they can. That’s part of being human too, and so many people seem to forget that.
The only thing you do when you target us with hatred, bile, and insults is you increase the number of us who stop being good, decent people. Because when you treat people like garbage for long enough, they’re going to become exactly the thing you treat them as. Garbage.
My name is Lapis-Lazuli.
And I am not a pervert.
I’m a Brony, an artist, and a person.
Can we get a standing ovation for this post?! It’s freaking perfect.
“Pervert” is often equated with “freak” (as demonstrated by the OP). But “pervert” is a perfectly legitimate term to use to describe us. Something is “perverted” when it is outside the norm, which this clearly is.
http://mlpafterdarkforever.tumblr.com/
“Clop so good it got shut down three times!”
A FUN GAME:
PRETEND YOUR ICON IS MAKING ITS CURRENT EXPRESSION WHILE GETTING A BLOWJOB
Not sure how that would work for mine. XD
Remember the final bit in the episode?
“I don’t show enthusiasm like my sister”. Maud enjoys things just as much as anyone does, she’s just an extraordinarily reserved.
I see no reason why she wouldn’t like sex. She just may not be very expressive during—which could make things awkward for her partner.
Then again, she’s not only reserved, but it seems that she really wasn’t too interested in doing the things she was doing with Twilight friends. But she actually cracked a smile when talking about Pinkie at the end, which leads me to believe that she may have a bit more of emotional range than most of the episode implies, though I’m sure she’s always fairly stoic about it.
At the end of the day, it’s all just conjecture though. It would be just as easy to say she’s asexual and not interested in sex. *shrug*
Anonymous asked you:Spike and Twilight spam?-~Button
Reblogged for the first one! I see this mistaken terminology all the time.
The term “vagina” only refers to the internal canal that leads to the uterus. The collective term for the outer part of female genitalia is “vulva.”
(The “lips” that Twilight is pointing to are the labia minora [singular “labium minus”].)
This picture is really old and I linked it to my friend, and he made a really good point.
If you’re gonna go this fucking batshit crazy, why not take the time to photoshop genitals on the horse too? Like it’s just lazy.
O.O I’m fine with the whole “ponies in real life” thing, but this is going too far!
Sometimes when it comes to sex? This is all I need. A firm grip from a good lover.
Obsidian: “You rang?~”
Someone read my mind
omg that’s hot <3
I like it smooth. :P
