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[ruledbyvnus]

carrie bradshaw icons.

[touchlikethesun]

TW: sa. Hi! I hope it's okay to talk about it but about your tags in that post about SVSSS and SA being a recurring theme, I agree with a lot of it. I would say that even Bingge can be argued to be have some trauma since his first time was coerced. Someone pointed out Bingge could've become hypersexual as a result of that trauma and that it made me see the whole harem thing in a new light (but it doesn't make him innocent since he forced himself on a bunch of wives). It really is such a recurring theme it's hinted for Shen Jiu and for Su Xiyan and Binghe with the Old Palace Master. Su Xiyan's story is even the catalyst for Binghe's tragic backstory... You made a very good observation OP!

hey anon, yeah it's alright to talk about! i do appreciate you including a tw, but this is a topic i find really interesting, i actually opened my laptop back up to answer you lol

as for luo bingge, i didn't get into it in my tags bc… lowkey didn't expect ppl to read them lol (ty for doing so tho xx) and also he's quite a complicated case. we obviously can't say for certain since we see so little of him and what we do know is told to us thru multiple layers of unreliable narration, but i do think there is enough to suggest many of luo bingge's early sexual experiences were probably coerced or non-consensual, leading to trauma-induced hypersexual behavior. (edit: i am adding this parenthetical a few hours later after writing the rest of this and i didn't know how to fit it in otherwise so apologies, but i think it's worth pointing out that luo binghe - both bingmei and bingge, so i think we can consider it to be a core trait - do naturally have a much higher libido than most people. with bingmei we see how this causes issues for him in his relationship with shen qingqiu, but it's managed with kindness because sqq loves him and is patient enough to teach him boundaries and managed by binghe himself who loves and doesn't want to hurt sqq and who has been taught consent and respect from a younger age. when it comes to bingge, who lacks the sort of safe space provided by sqq and has no education in the matter, i think it's easy to see how he would have a much harder time understanding and managing his libido - again it isn't an excuse for SA, but this is just another convention of the genre that were it to be realised has horrible implications and consequences.)

but also, luo bingge lives in a world where healthy consensual sexual dynamics are so rarely modeled for him (the aforementioned coercive sex, but also constantly being gifted wives by other men, and the normalisation of rape in a world with sex pollen (sorry ik i already said that but like really it is so incredibly fucked up if you think about the implications of sex pollen in a real world)), and where he is being taught that the only way to be safe is to have physical power over others - of course we the reader know this is because it's being written as a venting male fantasy revenge story with a target audience of incels, but concretely this is bad for luo bingge's psyche, and you know, also leads him to do horrible things in retaliation and hurt and innombrable amount of people

and again, i don't know how much of this was really intentional on mxtx's part and how much i am reading into it, but svsss is about making one-dimensional smut novel characters into fully realised people and extrapolating out the implications for what it would mean for that world to be a real one. like, shanq qinghua and especially shen qingqiu have to learn that the people they live with are not as simple as they might have appeared on the screen of the webnovel. and part of the extrapolating, from my read of svsss, involves interrogating the ways characters have and have had their agency infringed upon in the original pidw and finding ways to return their agency to them in svsss. this is perhaps most clearly seen in the way all the "wife" characters in svsss are allowed to be their own people separate from binghe, with different passions and drives and again, agency to direct their own lives, contrary to sqq's expectations of them. however this also involves bringing to light just how pervasive and damaging the sexual violence in the original story really is, by showing the abuse that su xiyan suffered, by showing how binghe is negatively affected by xin mo and the other coercive elements of this world, by subverting expectations with shen jiu and showing how he was also a victim, and by making the only truly irredeemably evil character the old palace master, a disgusting old pervert and sexual harasser.

anyways yeah i think it's a really interesting aspect of svsss, and while i can understand why it might not be at the forefront of everyone's mind (good lord is it a BUMMER to think about), it would be a disservice to the narrative to forget it entirely.

[ruledbyvnus]

gwen stacy/spider gwen.

[cestacruz]

Rhongomyniad my favorite cat lance

[queeringclassiclit]

Gawain & Lancelot

from Arthurian Legend

propaganda (quotes) below the cut

The Vulgate Cycle:

Gawain: “If God were to grant me my health,” he said, “I’d immediately wish to be the most beautiful maiden in the world, happy and healthy, on condition that [Lancelot] would love me above all others, all his life and mine.”

Lancelot: "I should not be able to kill [Gawain] for all the world, because I think he is too noble. Moreover, he is the man, out of all those in the world that have meant anything to me, that I have most loved, and still do,”

"It is certainly remarkable of you," said King Bors, "to love [Gawain] so deeply when he hates you mortally." "Find it remarkable if you wish," replied Lancelot, "but he will never be able to hate me so much that I stop loving him."

Knight of the Cart:

'However, no business of his own can detain [Gawain], as soon as he sees Lancelot, from dismounting and extending his arms to him, as he embraces, salutes and kisses him. Now he is happy and at ease, when he has found his companion. Now I will tell you the truth, and you must not think I lie, that Gawain would not wish to be chosen king, unless he had Lancelot with him.'

Lancelot and the Hart With the White Foot:

Gawain: “[Lancelot] is the best knight alive in the entire world, and moreover the most handsome.”

massive shoutout to @gringolet for compiling quotes about them

[sampungmgadaliri]

Someone on Twitter blessed us with scanned versions of GBV Set A photocards. My personal favorite. Thanks, @TiyoBloom on Twitter.

[biniversity]

[coooldair]

Some doodles because i have nothing to post (i actually have but im embarassed)

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

Have my Ben 10 crack ship! Ben x Eddie ❤💚

Something that started as a fun child crush that will probably end in a power couple. Though Max and Donavon are the first ones to know, Gwen doesn't know some eps later.

@cf8wrk4u-us gave me some ideas and I hope to share some soon... depending on how college treats me...

[golyhawhaw]

August Sim Rollout

Greetings! I wanted to show you all what sims to expect this month. I hope you like the selections.

Thank you so much for the support I have received during these difficult times. I'm in a place where I can create content more regularly. I am blessed to be apart of this community.

[binilocks]

𐙚 #BINI: #GrandBINIverse Photo Series 1/5 Aiah + Colet

— extended | upscaled lockscreen/homescreen wallpaper [please do not repost, print, or remove watermark without permission] 𐙚 for #bini and #blooms ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚

˱ 𓈒 𓈊 we’d really appreciate a feedback or a screenshot/tag when you use the wallpapers on your phone ┈ 𓈒 ˲

BINI (OT8): Aiah Arceta Colet Vergara Maloi Ricalde Gwen Apuli Stacey Sevilleja Mikha Lim Jhoanna Robles Sheena Catacutan

[siflshonen]

When I first saw the Volume 37 cover I thought it was more of a reference to Batman’s A Death in the Family or even the first instances of Robin dying and how much blowback it got from the readership rather than a direct nod to The Night Gwen Stacy Died, but happily assumed it could be both and didn’t dwell on it.

After further consideration, as well as revisiting the circumstances and reader response to that particular moment in Spider-Man history, now I am not so sure.

[sampungmgadaliri]

Our hambebe from last night's Grand BINIverse.