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funny musings about writing anthro erotica
a year ago
Obligatory warning for discussion of nsfw sex-stuff. Nothing graphic, I'm just musing about it, as you can see from the post title.
so. I am finally writing a proper story about Elnos! it's been very wonderful to finally get to explore him in a format I'm more familiar with than visual drawing, and to get a better feel for Estea as a world and him as a character outside of silly shitposts and comics. However, I've discovered something very amusing about myself. See, I struggle to write nsfw explicit sex in my works, because although I try very hard to be sex positive while myself being a very sexually inclined individual, I struggle with writing sex into my stories because...well...sex is very Funny!! I laugh too hard at it to take it seriously, so I can never really linger on any spicy scenes for too long before I get flustered and too embarrassed to go on.
But, as it turns out? Writing sex between anthro animal characters somehow makes it much much easier to get into an erotic scene! I don't now why exactly this is, but a friend of mine on discord suggests that since my take on anthros leans heavily into their animal features, such as tail feathers and scales and vocalizations, that it softens the blow of Sex as a subject and allows me to lean into it easier. The setting of Estea is far enough from our world in terms of social and cultural norms that I can easily envision a scene of Elnos witnessing various lewd acts in public without any issue, but the characters themselves are still fundamentally People like you and I, with very similar fantasies and desires they wish to explore, so it forms a safe little playground in which to imagine.
Also autism, probably.
I just thought that it was very funny!
so. I am finally writing a proper story about Elnos! it's been very wonderful to finally get to explore him in a format I'm more familiar with than visual drawing, and to get a better feel for Estea as a world and him as a character outside of silly shitposts and comics. However, I've discovered something very amusing about myself. See, I struggle to write nsfw explicit sex in my works, because although I try very hard to be sex positive while myself being a very sexually inclined individual, I struggle with writing sex into my stories because...well...sex is very Funny!! I laugh too hard at it to take it seriously, so I can never really linger on any spicy scenes for too long before I get flustered and too embarrassed to go on.
But, as it turns out? Writing sex between anthro animal characters somehow makes it much much easier to get into an erotic scene! I don't now why exactly this is, but a friend of mine on discord suggests that since my take on anthros leans heavily into their animal features, such as tail feathers and scales and vocalizations, that it softens the blow of Sex as a subject and allows me to lean into it easier. The setting of Estea is far enough from our world in terms of social and cultural norms that I can easily envision a scene of Elnos witnessing various lewd acts in public without any issue, but the characters themselves are still fundamentally People like you and I, with very similar fantasies and desires they wish to explore, so it forms a safe little playground in which to imagine.
Also autism, probably.
I just thought that it was very funny!
