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Maeve Larken
@maevelarken.bsky.social
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Reader & writer of fantasy romance. She/her
I believe these things make the world better:
✨ Representation in media
✨ Beauty & Wonder
✨ Monster smut

Autistic ⁕ Boobless ⁕ Still Pretty Cool
Debut book coming soon!
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A very interesting read on sex in media.

My take: You don't complain about someone drinking a coffee in a movie "why is this in here??" so why complain about a sex scene? Sometimes people want a coffee and that's all there is to it. It does not demean the media

specchioscuro.it/the-puritani...
What’s retrograde is arguing that women (or anyone for that matter) having sex and being overtly sexual (for any reason or no reason at all), even and especially when they are the ones being agent about their sexuality, is somehow retrograde. The automatic assumption that sex, sexuality, desire, bodily experience and expression as a major part of a woman’s (or any person’s) life and perhaps core to understanding her is not valid in and of itself and must instead serve some kind of moral or political purpose, is a vehement expression of this puritanical stance, and furthermore, supports the broader capitalist perspective that sex only exists for pro-creation and the production of new workers — that sex for pleasure, and indeed pleasure itself, is inherently anti-capital. These critics (and audiences today generally speaking) are only interested in a sanitized, moralized, and ideally, completely non-controversial experience with their media and art, an experience they readily commodify into an easily digestible opinion (or tweet, meme, headline) to exist as an artifact online, one that’s representative and reflective of their personal political and moral ideologies.
February 4, 2025 at 5:36 AM
maevelarken.bsky.social
A girl gets to a certain age where she realizes dragons are far more fun. I’m that age.
An illustration of a fantasy woman dressed elegantly leaning against a pillar. The text reads “Forget waiting for Princess Charming… I want the dragon”
February 3, 2025 at 5:41 AM