Oh goodness.

I hope it's just my frame of reference being off and that butt-plug isn't honestly as thick as my leg. That's so gross : (

No, it's your standard buttplug. Roo's not one of those guys who makes a ten foot tall sex toy just to shock people.

Also, if you read between the lines a little bit and notice that he pointed out that the buttplug is wielded as a sword, and you actually understand the imagery of Wilde's words, you see that there is a message to be grasped here.
He's complaining about the superficial nature of the gay people around him, criticizing their cattiness and two-faced demeanors and/or "Let's play straight outside, we can be gay at home," attitude, and praising the man who is proud enough to go forth and weild a sword-esque buttplug to announce his homosexuality.

Oh, goodness, I know it's symbolic of stuff. I'm just not saying what I think it means because it's easier to talk to bouncedog directly about it than putting up some permanently-recorded interpretation lacking in any real dialogue which is really okay I guess but it's so much nicer to have conversations with the creator which you don't always get to do when interpreting symbolism because it's usually "Hey, here's a thing." and you go "Okay. Here's what it might mean, and here are a whole bunch of supporting texts to prove it!" and then someone else publishes something which totally denounces that, and the next thing you know you have academic gangwars where guys like Tolkien are walking around spinning switchblades in both hands because someone completely missed the ball on why Beowulf was significant and it is up to him to set things straight. Plus, I don't want to end up saying something silly that bouncedog doesn't want stuck under the submission (I have no idea what I could say that would elicit such a response but bouncedogs hop VERY far, and you never know where they're going to land until they do!).

And I know bouncedog didn't make it. Still, though. I can't get a good frame of reference in this, and so it looks gigantic and that makes me laugh.

That paragraph there gives me about as much trouble as Finnegans Wake. But I think I got the jist of it.

It would be hilarious if it was all really huge... I just wish I could've made a nice silkscreen of the text instead of the scratchy painted text.

I dunno, I like the scratchy. It has that "Tiny rebel group going against the evil empire" thing, like as if from Battle Royale 2 (which sucked) which makes it seem like you're a tiny voice against a big trend. Or something.

It's not exactly standard-- it is pretty damn big, I'd say. Which makes it even more gross.

Also, you got the meaning half wrong. XP
"Also, if you read between the lines a little bit and notice that he pointed out that the buttplug is wielded as a sword, and you actually understand the imagery of Wilde's words, you see that there is a message to be grasped here.
He's complaining about the superficial nature of the gay people around him,"
That is right.

"criticizing their cattiness and two-faced demeanors and/or "Let's play straight outside, we can be gay at home," attitude, and praising the man who is proud enough to go forth and weild a sword-esque buttplug to announce his homosexuality."
That is not. I'm actually sort of saying the opposite thing. I'm critisizing the people who do wear their sexuality on their sleeve and such. I think anyone who is truly proud of themselves won't go out and parade about in their personal fetish gear. When I think about Gay culture, I mostly end up thinking of things like The Carpenters, Cruising, horrible trance music, promiscuity, and overall shallowness. I'm using the juxtaposition here to try to show that; the man might be brave in some way or another, but he's still "killing the thing he loves".
Although I like your interpretation, and it does work, it's just not what I had intended.

It's a litle under 2 feet long... I guess I should have listed dimensions. D:
I'm sorry.

Gaaaah so it really is big. I guess.

I dunno D: I dunno what the standard size for butt-plugs honestly are.

It looks stained.

I'd think a standard would be, like... Half a foot? D: D:

The staining is from the fact that random things in that room are covered-to-shit in charcoal dust.... Although the butt-sword IS second-hand.... which is the grossest part.

I totally forgot Wilde was a homo, must be part of why I dug and read into his stuff a lot. Also the brave man seems quite forward D: x3

Wilde was a great writer. He was also so homo that he went to prison for it.
Something I have said before is that gay culture died with Oscar Wilde, so that's sort of how I chose the words to use here.

The brave man is a stupid girlyfag. XP

O.o

Explanation:
"Zac hates gay culture" and/or "Gay culture is built around 'overtness' and everything being about sexuality, and therefore is retarded".

Oh okay, I understand more now.

Do you think that explanation is readily apparent in the art itself?
Also, did it make you uncomfortable to see? XP

i like it, but it would be cool if you used the toy to write it

But that would require touching the toy much more than I would be comfortable with.

Keen idea though. Maybe I'll just wear some rubber gloves and try that if I ever decide to show this work. haha.

I'm glad you like it/don't think it's retarded.

i think you should investigate it further. I think there is some amazing pieces in that subject matter / implementation

I also made a short film called "Cuddles (A Bear Can Dream)", which I'd show you, but the website it's on has been down for a long time. :c

I'm sorry.

it is embarrassing anyway.

i would want to see it

I should find another site to host videos because it seems superu.ca simply stopped working at all.

I'll link you next time it is somewhere.

http://vimeo.com/17463124