I Just Found The DNI-archive Blog And I Find Myself Binging It.

I just found the DNI-archive blog and I find myself binging it.

I’ve been pondering the idea of a pred who observers don’t bother about their big belly and the prey desperately calling for help and struggling, not because they don’t care or are afraid, but because they literally can’t perceive what’s happening. Only the pred and prey can see reality for what it is, everyone else is seeing the reality the pred wants them to see.

I realised I never mentioned how Bastion’s human avatar and Ida can have so many uninterrupted conversations. The Manor has safe zones in much the way a real spider web has threads that aren’t sticky. Ida is good at spotting those zones. It’s also how she can squat there safely. Wouldn’t be able to crash there otherwise. It’s sort of based on the video game hubs and Resident Evil safe zones idea again, because Ida will always be a survival horror protagonist in my eyes even if she’s not from a game.

I go absolutely feral when preds in vore refer to digesting the prey and say something along the lines of “no one will know where you’ve gone, it’ll just be our little secret”. Like fuck yes disappear me and act like it’s something intimate and sordid between the two of us. Or like a magician pred who after a show takes their volunteer or assistant back stage and says to themselves and their prey now that they’re in private as if it were a show just between the two of them “and now ladies and gentlemen I’m going to make *preys name* mnnn~ disappear <3”

I’m reblogging this cause I realised I had a big rant brewing when I commented.

Okay so, not only is Fatal Vore A. Not always a metaphor for SA B. When it is, it’s not always a glorification of SA sometimes it’s a survivor working through and exploring their trauma in an environment where no one is really in danger or being hurt.

But I feel like Willing Fatal is actually pretty healing, because if you’re like me and do have fears of intimacy, then that fear isn’t going away overnight. Even if on some level you want to be intimate, it still doesn’t feel safe or like it’s something that comes without a price. Writing Safe vore is something I CAN do but it’s not something I can ALWAYS do. Not just from a fetish perspective but from a psychological standpoint. Not every day is a day where I believe intimacy is safe.

To expand on that, I feel like when I write digestion and it’s enjoyable for both parties or the pred and prey manage to come to some sort of equilibrium. I think that’s also a form of healing or resolution.

I think when exploring trauma the trauma isn’t permanently fixed in a single state. You can start off a story recreating your past trauma wholesale and end a story rewriting it into something more healthy or hopeful. But I don’t think that’s required. I don’t think it’s any author using fiction to explore their traumas job, to give an outside audience any form of buffer or hope spot. Because the fiction wasn’t written for them. I also don’t think just because I use my fetish to explore this stuff that any story I write with vore in it is a serious in depth look into my traumatised psyche. I think sometimes the curtains are just blue.

People get very fixated on the idea that writers write fiction for them. But realistically, I think most writers actually write for themselves. I also think people get fixated on the idea that what they take away from a story is always what the author intended. But I think that’s pretty unlikely. I also went to English class guys but the thing you have to remember is English class was never about what the actual message the author wanted to convey was. It was always about seeing how convincingly a student could argue for their interpretation of the authors story. They were testing your ability to spin a convincing yarn, not your ability to map out an authors exact thought process without context only the author has.

Death of the Author applies to an individual reader’s interpretation of a story and what they get out of it. It does not mean the author’s original reasons for writing a story stop existing. It just means readers got something else out of it. That the act of reading was in and of itself transformative at least on an individual level.

I think people forget that the world doesn’t always revolve around them. Even if you share a fetish with someone, it’s not really the same fetish. It manifests similarly but it’s not truly the same. Someone can write a story about an unwilling prey getting swallowed by a predator and dying inside them and it might mean something completely different to them than it does to you.

Sometimes it doesn’t matter that it’s not the same. There’s enough overlap that you can enjoy what the other person has put out there. But when you can’t, I think it’s presumptuous to assume you actually know why they’ve made this thing, or what they’re getting from it. How could you? I doubt they always even know and when they do know. Naysaying them about it is incredibly rude.

Basically don’t tell people why they do what they do, especially if you don’t actually know why they do what they do. And have the reading comprehension to realise that fiction is a safe space for exploring dangerous and upsetting things and those things being explored are often more complex than just “this is a metaphor for SA” sometimes things are in process. Sometimes they’re not. You don’t get to decide what stage someone is at just cause you’ve read their story on the internet.

going through the fatal vore tag is both a blessing and a curse because sometimes, you find some really good new content! and it's wonderful!

...but then, unfortunately, as you go through it, you realize that a lot of the content is either from yourself, or from mutuals, and you've seen it before. And then a good 1/3rd of it is content you either don't want to see because you forgot to blacklist a tag, or it's legit someone complaining about fatal vore, and they oh so kindly tagged their complaining with the "fatal vore" tag. It's super jarring to be looking for a specific post, and then suddenly see a post that's high-key shaming fatal enjoyers and acting like we're all freaks :(