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Hello Ben, how are you? Have you fully recovered from that car accident? I was very glad to see your answer, especially so interesting and promising. My friend, we are looking forward to see your new stories (the continuation of the “Masked Hawk” would be super cool, but if you decide to finish your “Taming of the Screw” story first, it will also be OK).
With hope and determination, Joel
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Hi Ben! Such a nice your new art on pixiv :thumbs up: But I want to ask you about your old (and unfinished, for pity) story "Masque'd Hawk". First question - will you continue it to the logical end? And the second - could you explain, what is the goal of Madame Masque’s doings to poor Kate? Look, we are all adults and adult is distinguished from child by an understanding of the consequences of his actions. OK, Masque caught her victim – and promiced to free her at the end, but first she’ll punish her, rape her, scared her… – why? For what? Just only to show Kate her worthlessness? But OK. Showed. Whom becomes Kate when she’ll be finally free? Some sort of psycho? Another villain? And who said that the villains don’t torture or kill each others? Sweet little girl who want to play in superhero to protect the innocent will show understanding, condescension and mercy to her enemies. Villain won’t. So, torturing the Kate, Madame Masque literally digging her own grave, isn't it? What do you think?
Best wishes, Joel
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9 hours ago, HunterOpera said:
I love Westworld way too much.
Realistic dolls, huh?
With whom you can do anything you want? It’s a great temptation, I agree, but some people would say that no programming can be compared with all variables of the real mind.
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2 hours ago, MorbidFantasy said:
How very Westworld of you, lol #fidelity.
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6 hours ago, MorbidFantasy said:
The fuck is this thread turning into lol, let’s not bring the horrors of the real world into this and just enjoy the vicarious horrors of fiction space, plox.
It’s all about psychology and all psychology is about authenticity. Very simple, bro
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Oh Ben. As I said earlier, you’re so good person… but I’m afraid, reality is worse. Much worse. Let’s see:
On 11/21/2018 at 8:12 AM, HunterOpera said:I think the only real defense against that sort of evil if a constant and measured degree of self-analysis based on as much truth as possible, and a healthy degree of self-doubt and skepticism.
Yes, your recipe should work – but in ideal circumstances. Soldiers (or another military men) are specially trained to execute orders without thinking. It is normal – all armies of all countries do so. “Soldier, do not ask”, remember? You have your order – than execute it. After the battle you could make a complaint to your commander. Or shoot him in the back. Or kill yourself. But only after the order was executed. Yes, there were soldiers who refused to carry out criminal orders. Their amount was about 2-5% of all. It is exception, Ben – not the rule. For sorry.
On 11/21/2018 at 8:12 AM, HunterOpera said:Melissa being the main antagonist. Melissa was repeating a cycle of abuse that had been inflicted upon her and made worse by her physical and intellectual maturity and mental and emotional immaturity. She was a victim who made other people victims.
Yes, of course. It’s classic compensatory syndrom.
On 11/21/2018 at 8:12 AM, HunterOpera said:The stories are an escape, a fantasy meant for people that are into the fiction of rape and the destruction of character rather than the reality.
And another “yes, of course” )) We all deserve for our little nook for fantasies. It’s absolutely normal to dream.
On 11/21/2018 at 8:12 AM, HunterOpera said:What should be the punishment for, say, those two kids that raped that girl in Ohio? For Brock Turner? For anyone that gets away with being a terrible person because of affluenza? For whatever reason people are getting away with being terrible in real life, and that’s currently being challenged and that is the best thing. The Brock Turners of the world lack empathy and don’t see why what they do is wrong, and they need to be educated until they do.
Good question. My thoughts? Rape is bad, really bad thing – but there is a thing worse than rape. It’s killing (after rape, I mean). Severe punishment for rape, that provides Western justice will lead only to one consequense: the rapists will kill their victims to avoid identification and jail. That would be really bad, because life after rape is possible – good or bad, but after death there is no life at all.
On 11/21/2018 at 8:12 AM, HunterOpera said:What makes you better than an abuser in that case? What makes you think that punishing a person who is already suffering and lashing out from their place of hurt is going to make them a better person instead of widening the wound within them?
How do you fix this?
How do you make it better for the victims and their families? There is no level of punishment that is ever going to make it okay, but there if there is a chance to keep it from happening to anyone else, that chance should be taken.
Aha. So at least we reach the core. No punishment for “Drasha-level cruelty” – just re-education of Drasha herself. “Hello dear, I’m sorry to interrupt you from torturing another victim, but do you have a minute to talk about human kindness and mutual understanding?” But what if Drasha doesn’t want to listen?
So, what we got in the end? Psychotherapy for both – victim and torturer? Ben, do you really think it would work?
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On 11/19/2018 at 9:57 PM, HunterOpera said:
That’s the scary thing about laws; sometimes they are morally or ethically wrong. Within the context of Parmistan there is no reason to catch Drasha, because she benefits from being in the right on a systemic level.
I see, Ben. Your opinion is clear: Drasha is not a bad person - it was a bad law system. But in any case, bad laws is not a basis for cruelty. A cruel person will remain cruel under any law, good or bad. Imagine SS or NKVD officers who tortured and killed people. Were they bad people or did they just honestly execute bad orders? It seems to me that the system itself, which demands cruelty from people, is vicious and only cruel people can work there. A good person cannot calmly torture other people just because he or she was told so.
Now consider another case - as in “Bergman Affair”. The villain as a private person who kidnapped and torments the victim for his own pleasure. What do you think such person deserves? And what punishment for him his former victim may ask for? If you can, think of it as if it’s you were that victim and know well what your captor can do with body and mind of somebody’s unsuspecting son or daughter. Thanks
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On 11/16/2018 at 9:04 PM, HunterOpera said:
I created a monster.
Hmm, IMHO it's different things there. First – Drasha is a colorful character, and second – she is very inventive. Oh, we know good that it’s YOU very inventive, but you’re a good person and Drasha – very bad fiction character ))
p.s. Ben, what do you think people should do with such people as Drasha after she being caught? I mean - remember the Poul Anderson’s words “ My highest goal is that the punishment and crime becomes equal”. What is your opinion? -
On 7/16/2018 at 6:00 AM, HunterOpera said:
It’s okay to find this scary and the people that are into it likewise.
There’s kink, but this story – taken on its own – isn’t that. Non-con is rape, pure and simple. As a fantasy, it’s one thing and there’s going to be people that enjoy it for that, the same way people enjoy role-play and kink, but rape isn’t okay. The people doing it in this story are villains, about the most terrible people I can think of. Olsar himself is a callow coward, Salis is terrible, the others… the protagonists in this story are awful people. And it can be hard to tell who is enjoying it as fantasy and who is enjoying it as a reality, and it’s important to know it’s intended as the former and a condemnation of the latter.
Pride is different than Bergman in that it’s not playing with Metroid tropes so much as just the concept of Samus herself – I’m aiming for a legend vs reality subtext and wanting to discuss questions of political perception and corruption. It has more in common with Reins than anything else I’ve written, and Reins touches on the Tomb Raider lore without doing the deep dive that something like Bergman was. Still, Samus the person has been broken in the past and could be broken again, and it’s one of the things that makes her interesting: Samus Aran is a fully realized character. She’s fascinating (Other M aside) because of it, but any single person can be broken down by trauma or technique.
Here’s another couple things, and a reason that some rape survivors read and write fics like this one: there’s comfort in knowing that you’re not alone, and comfort in knowing that you can come back from being broken. Samus destroyed her enemies in Bergman and she’s going to destroy them here. The arc I was working on when life got in the way was where that started, Samus coming back to herself and getting ready to wreck a terrible revenge on the criminals who have done terrible things to her and everyone else. She’s a savior on a galactic level and the enemies in this story make the galaxy worse just be existing, corrupting whole solar systems and making billions of lives worse to slate their own greed and lust.
They deserve what’s coming to them.
I also want to make sure: are the tags showing up? Why do people read this if the tags are and they don’t like what’s in the tags? I’m genuinely curious on that front.
Hello Ben. Some time ago I have found your fics and since then (as time permits) I read them with great interest. I started, of course, with updated Tomb Raider ))
As for your fics as they are, I really like the depth of working out the material and detailing - they are just one big plus. The concept of unescapable bondage is also very interesting; I've already met such things before, but yours were done at a high level - and that's wery good. The endings are realistic and the scheme of their performance reminds those of Mickey Spillane. As I understand it (although I have not read much yet), the basic idea is that liberation is possible only with someone's help. I agree with this (although there are also nuances to think about). Also, I'm very close to your position from the quote above - it's almost the same as I think (although there may be a nuance number 2 )) ). In any case, I really like your fics, although I'm not a fan of the Metroid universe (I’ve learn about the existence of Samus Aran from Wikipedia three weeks ago, LOL). But that doesn’t prevent the reading ;-)
With respect and hope for the continuation, Joel
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First of all, it’s good to know you're all right now. About the patreon... hmm, that’s a good question. We know that patreon is the site where two (mostly two) categories of creators are working – it’s artists and it’s game developers. Of course, there are exceptions – like Joe Forest, who make art and write stories at the same time. He also share them for free at your proposed model – with one month delay (but now his Patreon page is blocked for some reason). But I'm not sure that you could earn as much money as you want (if it is your main reason). Many authors and artists earn just something, I quote, “enough to buy a couple of cups of coffee”. But the decision of course is yours, my friend.
Best wishes, Joel