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So question(s) for my HDG girlies: does being a floret necessarily mean existing on a spectrum between stoner and house pet? While that's *absolutely* appealing to me I've been tinkering around with some story ideas and everything I've read tends in that direction yet I'm not sure if that's just narrative sampling bias or something.

If they're really dedicated to making sure each sophont before their best self, and a lot of bodymod tech is locked behind the implant, what do they do with a very enthusiastic transhumanist volunteer who wants to become *more* aware, not less? Or one who's already an Orion's Arm style post singularity intelligence and doesn't really wanna go back?

Also, what about hive minds? Like proper tyranid style overminds, who gets to be their owner? What does domesticating them even look like, what does "living your best life" look like for a ravenous swarm of biopuppets? What about sophont polities that are just as assimilate-y as the Affini themselves? Strog/Phyrexian/Infested type deal.

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monster mouth madness! mouth commissions from 2022 (and I think there might be a few older ones in there) you'd think I'd have run out of ideas by now, but you'd be wrong. (psst you can commission your own over here)

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~just another boy at the beach~

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praise me with a hint of dehumanization, like you're very proud of me but you also think its adorable and quaint that im even trying to act smart.

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girls when they are good

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Ok so I've done some cursory looking over hdg and it seems like it would like, 99% be my thing except for the caked in assumptions regarding consent.

If benevolent plant beings showed up from space and said "We're here to free you from capitalism and also do some weird kink stuff with you if you're into that" I would not need to be mindbroken about it. I would be like "Can you maybe also do some weird body horror stuff to me please" and they'd be like "Yeah and we're also gonna keep you as a pet" and I'd say "Yippee!"

If there's like, a bunch of stories about enthusiastic consent in the setting it would become my favorite thing I think, but im not seeing any reference to stories like that so far in my research.

No, I don't know if there's any specific stories like that. There must be a couple (there's nearly 1000 stories on AO3 alone!), but I've not seen them. Any other HDG readers can recommend any?

But yeah. HDG is firmly in a dubcon hypnosis era: it's usually about subs going "no I don't want this!" and they eventually get convinced (possibly with mind control! ) that they're actually denying their feelings and they DO want this.

I can totally see why that kind of consent situation wouldn't be for everyone! But it's a bit baked into the setting, so I don't know how much HDG you'll he able to find that doesn't have it.

Best of luck, and I totally understand if you just don't enjoy HDG because of the consent issues. It's not for everyone.

For what it's worth, while I personally don't have a problem with reading the dubcon, it is a bit annoying to me, as someone who would similarly just dive into being a plant-mommy's pet. An HDG protagonist will be all "damn you freaky xenos! Stop trying to give me the body I always wanted and fixing everything about my life and trying to give me sexy plant cuddles with fun drugs!"

And I'm like... Sis, stop complaining. Embrace being a pet and enjoy. This is everything I wanted.

(I hope I don't get evicted from the HDG fandom for my heresy)

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“You don’t have to be a person anymore/right now” is one of the greatest things people can ever say to me ever. I will look up at you with such big beautiful doe eyes full of so much love and affection that you’re giving me the ability to shed that role 💕

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Ok so I've done some cursory looking over hdg and it seems like it would like, 99% be my thing except for the caked in assumptions regarding consent.

If benevolent plant beings showed up from space and said "We're here to free you from capitalism and also do some weird kink stuff with you if you're into that" I would not need to be mindbroken about it. I would be like "Can you maybe also do some weird body horror stuff to me please" and they'd be like "Yeah and we're also gonna keep you as a pet" and I'd say "Yippee!"

If there's like, a bunch of stories about enthusiastic consent in the setting it would become my favorite thing I think, but im not seeing any reference to stories like that so far in my research.

No, I don't know if there's any specific stories like that. There must be a couple (there's nearly 1000 stories on AO3 alone!), but I've not seen them. Any other HDG readers can recommend any?

But yeah. HDG is firmly in a dubcon hypnosis era: it's usually about subs going "no I don't want this!" and they eventually get convinced (possibly with mind control! ) that they're actually denying their feelings and they DO want this.

I can totally see why that kind of consent situation wouldn't be for everyone! But it's a bit baked into the setting, so I don't know how much HDG you'll he able to find that doesn't have it.

Best of luck, and I totally understand if you just don't enjoy HDG because of the consent issues. It's not for everyone.

For what it's worth, while I personally don't have a problem with reading the dubcon, it is a bit annoying to me, as someone who would similarly just dive into being a plant-mommy's pet. An HDG protagonist will be all "damn you freaky xenos! Stop trying to give me the body I always wanted and fixing everything about my life and trying to give me sexy plant cuddles with fun drugs!"

And I'm like... Sis, stop complaining. Embrace being a pet and enjoy. This is everything I wanted.

(I hope I don't get evicted from the HDG fandom for my heresy)

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Someone should tenderly buckle a collar around my neck and pet my hair as all the tension drains out of my body, because I don't have to think anymore, or stress about responsibilities. All I have to do is be good.

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Let's start with something easy.

Once, you were someone. You were a person, or at least you thought you were. Everyone around you certainly seemed to think you were, and surely they knew better than you.

There were cracks in the assumption, of course, ugly oozing places where your thoughts' pastel slime dripped and stunk and dried into a bright painful crust. Places where sunlight rotted. That was normal, though. It had to be normal. Because if it wasn't …

But, well.

It wasn't.

And oh, how that hurt! How you struggled against the truth! A thorny briar, a barbed-wire snare, its fangs dripping with poison, its smile promising nothing but gnawing hunger. It tore you to shreds. You tore yourself to shreds to escape your self, and you failed, more's the pity. All that suffering when you could have just given in.

At least those tattered shards left space for something else to grow; for it to creep in through the mirror, through the empty places in your thoughts, on wings as soft as breath and as fragile as moonlight. Space to be, not someone, but yourself.

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I got mad at a certain botanical shared setting again, and realized that their axioms (of "the aliens are benevolent, imperialist, inevitable and post-scarcity") are fucking mutually exclusive. I'm not sure how anyone can get past this. (This goes on anon on your blog because if I posted it on main I'd get thoroughly unpersoned.)

>claims to be post-scarcity >endless territorial expansion

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Let it be settled with this: which is most esteemed among all entities? 🪽 The fervent angel 🟦 4.4%

🧼 The graceful maid 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 36.1%

🕯️ The meddling witch 🟦🟦 10.2%

🩰 The pliable doll 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 26.5%

🦋 I don't know/flummoxed by moths/any other miscellaneous infinitely nuanced being 🟦🟦🟦🟦 22.8% Final result from 294 votes

Prithee, rally to vote on one's behalf only those automata which can also suffer.

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#MAID SWEEEEEEP 🧹

Certainly I would hope she does.

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Heatwave in Kirkwall is real

Heatstroke trend from Twitter

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type of relationship i want is where i am someones living weapon, just a force of destruction that my partner can point wherever id be most useful, while also using my powers for their convenience in exchange for getting to be their pact-bound demon pet forever who gets to not have a job and they have to take care of me and let me ride in the passenger seat of their car U⁠^⁠ｪ⁠^⁠U