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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   1134 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 12, 2025

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[cw: almost certainly TMI oversharing. And most of the names here are either gay or male-leaning-bisexual]

How good is your imagination in this arena? Do you have a "mental spank bank" that surpasses the one on your hard drive?

I write smut, if not necessarily good smut, so my imagination's doing fine. There's a lot of options that aren't really featured in conventional porn at all, and despite the best efforts of the furry fandom to explore new domains of indescribably bizarre smut, there's a lot of stuff that either isn't available or only has a tiny number of not-great examples. Forget weird kinks: "Woman in jockstraps, het sex, go" seems vastly underserved and trivially easy to execute. I've got a handful of story irons in the fire, and while most of them are probably not desirable to the average poster here (a distaff counterpart to Hooters gets a little out of control, a gay guy gets talked into talking up a woman by his bi boyfriend, woman goes undercover in the men's locker room until hijinks 'force' her to watch some M/M, two opposite-gender spacers on a long haul trip find the close quarters and lacking privacy to take its toll, a gay guy in an alternate history fantasy world ends up 'owning' his straight best friend after hijinks ensure and struggles with his principles while said straight friend doesn't seem willing to learn his lessons), they're pretty enjoyable to consider.

In the bedroom, I'm a lot more interested in pleasing others. That's fun and sometimes a good start for a stroll down memory lane, but those experiences don't always or even often transfer over well if I'm just trying to shut down for the night, so to speak.

On the flip side, there are things other people have produced that I either could or would not consider, or have done anywhere near the same quality, even solely within my imagination. There's a really good short form animation of people competing in a video game while also abusing the settings on remote vibrators, doesn't even show a hint of a genital, would never have considered it as a concept beforehand, really gets my motor running. Fek's Spellbound (cw: technically there's a pair of boobs, but it's almost all gay) and a lot of Ruaidri's animations should be comedic, but it's just so well-executed that it works. A lot of LawyerDog/Cantio, Braeburned, and Rick Griffin's stuff is both comedic and horny. Even for conventional human-on-human camera porn, there's a lot of imagery that's not something I'd have considered.

On the gripping hand (hurr hurr), a lot of scenarios presented by my own imagination or presented by others, aren't really practical or desirable; sometimes they're not considered because they're bad ideas. Sex while gaming is actually pretty unpleasant, quel surprise. Wake-up sex is an interesting fantasy, but no level of carefully-circumscribed consent beforehand can overcome a startle reflex. A lot of rough sex or degradation is just unpleasant, rather than kinky in a fun way. Ethical exhibitionism or enhibitionism isn't as time-consuming to set up as it sounds, but it's still ultimately very chilly and I don't have the physique for even ENM. Orientation play just doesn’t really work in situ; fantasies that depend on magic or superscience or both tautologically can't actually happen. Haven't tried the Braeburned orgies, but don't really want to, either.

*I don't know why she felt it necessary to give me special notice in this manner. I don't think we were very close, though we were both acclaimed by others as highly effective employees.

I wonder if she left because she saw herself at an ethical or liability crux, and thought you were competent such that you'd end up next in line after she retired, and didn't want you to feel like she was abandoned/shoving it on you or for you to not be aware of the scope of the problem. But I dunno the domain-specific context.

Wake-up sex is an interesting fantasy, but no level of carefully-circumscribed consent beforehand can overcome a startle reflex.

You'd be surprised - and it is as good if not better than the fantasy of it.

It definitely works for some people, so don't read that as a complete nonstarter for everyone. It just doesn't work for me, even if the fantasy was still interesting, either being self-conscious while waking up or getting an elbow to the eyeball are kinda moodkillers.

I wonder if she left because she saw herself at an ethical or liability crux, and thought you were competent such that you'd end up next in line after she retired, and didn't want you to feel like she was abandoned/shoving it on you or for you to not be aware of the scope of the problem.

(1) She informed the whole office of the mentor program's shenanigans in a non-private manner months before resigning. In this private rendezvous she did nothing but inform me that she had sent her resignation email to the bigwigs a few minutes ago.

(2) I did not have an engineer's license, so I was not eligible to volunteer in the mentoring program, and I would not have been interested in volunteering even if I had been licensed. (In the absence of any salary incentives, and with my plans to retire early, I had no interest in obtaining a license.) Her mentoring volunteering was transferred to another licensed volunteer in a different office, and her non-mentoring work was transferred to a different person in our office (not to me).

FYI, I think you can mark comments you've made as 18+, it's under the ellipsis in the default view. IDK, if anyone cares, it matters, or does anything.

I used to do that, but unfortunately its biggest impact was breaking external archive sites, with very little benefit to the not-so-virgin eyes I was trying to protect.

I do think it slows the slide into prurient topics that I think the more misanthropic among us insist on telling us is 'fun'.

Possible, but I was direct-linking hardcore stuff under that, so dunno how effect it'd be.

IIRC, some people complained about how that built-in NSFW mark (1) triggers an annoying pop-up for people who have not bothered to disable the pop-up in their account settings and (2) breaks third-party archiving and search indexing, so using the NSFW mark is frowned on.

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