seriously though this is something I’ve had long conversations about. the kinds of gaming porn that get produced around female characters for presumably a cis het male audience really scares me - it crops up very fast, it’s practically a cottage industry and in many cases it’s very violent, very gross. It almost feels like, the more lauded or progressive female characters are, the more exoticized and brutalized they are in whatever game-related porn they are featured in. I see it less as just porn to feed the appetites of people who want to sexualize game characters out of the games they play, but rather taking whatever sexualization is there or expected and using it to further alienate people away from the space with it, to re-establish a new space as only For These People.