#sex + murder is much overused nowadays in ways that arent always very good imo

[bruiseswayne]

i kept thinking and thinking like, what made ks ‘gore porn’ and not, for example, an psychological story about abuse and mental illness like i, and many others, used to think/still think. the mental illness part ill dismiss right away because gndjngjdg its just because it doesn’t seem like the author knows shit about mental illness and BPD and just took it for the suspense lmao b u t the abuse confused me at first because???? it's not as if it's not t h e re. there is a l o t of abuse in ks, psychological, physical and sexual. it fucks bum up a lot, mentally and physically. and, i a whole empathy boy, d  i  d feel bad for him so i was like well the story is working, this is a story about an abused boy and we feel bad for him, it works but i realized like. there's a difference between abuse that will be there for the story, for a message or a lesson, for the psychological worth of it, and abuse thats there just for porn, and though i think the difference is somehow s u b t l e i think it tells a lot: abuse thats there for the story's sake is never entirely shown. its there but its often shown like. through metaphors, through very short scenes like flashbacks, hallucinations, nightmares, time skips, etc. in a sense its because the author recognizes the scene is awful and wants you to feel how disgusting it is without entirely showing it to you because, it s h o uld n t be shown. that kind of shit shouldnt be seen, shouldnt be appreciated through art. more than often we see through the abused's eyes, we can see how they felt and how hurt they are thats where ‘guro porn’ is entirely different because it disguises itself as the story of an abused person, b u t  it shows you the whole process, the w h o l e abuse, no matter how awful or painful it is, because the author doesnt actually c a r e about the abuse or the abused, more about the ''''porn'''' of it, the aesthetics and attractiveness of it. it romanticizes the abuse, makes the readers enjoy it, makes it look very pretty and even desirable through nice art. it puts you in the abuser's point of view, in a sense, because they too enjoy it and could care less about the abused’s feelings and their impact this happens a lot in erotic mangas and animations as well, for example, where they'll show a rape going like :/ its so tragic, but they show you the whole t h i n g. if it was so tragic you wouldnt '''''humiliate'''''' the character by showing it. you'd imply it happened in whatever way, and evolve the story around the victim's feelings and point of view and s o  the difference may be a bit far fetched?? i dunno if its just me gjndngnj B U T , to me it makes a strong difference between an actual abuse story with a chance of the story actually ending well or at the very least teaching a lesson and telling an actual idea, and ‘guro porn’ thats most likely gonna end awful and disappointing because thats what pleases the eyes, and ks is most likely the latter, and i wish it wasnt BUT LIKE........ lbr and i think i can tell now because, ironically, i feel like the author of ks s  h  o  w s that difference in their own comic gjdng like we found out bum was being raped by his uncle. it was to be seen as a tragic event, something awful, so they show us one panel, with a naked, sad bum, and someone walking away. its enough to make us understand that something awful happened to him you know??? we dont need to know more, we know it's abuse and we know how terrible bum felt because of it. some more dialogue later on helps us understand even more the pain he’s gone through but then in the same fuckgihn comic you have sangwoo being sexually abusive to bum and like. its still rape. why can we suddenly see the whole thing ?????? why is it less awful to see? because it’s no longer here for the sake of a story. sangwoo is attractive. and of course since he's attractive, the fact that hes a rapist is either not even noticed or it’s seen as hot, or is at least not seen as awful than if it had been the Gross, Ugly Uncle. it is allowed for the scene to be shown, because in the eyes of the author its just here for the Aesthetics. it’s good to show. the abuse is romanticized, beautified and even WITH SANGWOO for example, we had flashbacks of him being abused by his father. v e r y brief flashbacks, stricking and just enough for us to understand, even a little bit, the gravity of his past. any other kind of violence though is completely shown in gruesome ways and with many panels and well-drawn details and theres no r e a s on to do so really, it’s not as if his murders aren’t unnecessary and terrible, or that his abuse to his victims isn’t painful. its just that again, sangwoo is attractive, and his killings and abusive actions will be made to look sexy no matter the gravity of the situation. imo it completely ruins the depth that a death can have. it’s not here for a story reason. it’s just there so people can enjoy the suffering of someone else, without any psychological value behind it conclusion: ks is shit and im angry that i still have some curiosity for it but i hate it so much, it and its fandom sadly makes me sick BUT ITS OK........ because im gonna use this hate to make a better story this is just life showing me what NOT to do in a comic. yeah ghnfdsjg