So, I was idly thinking about the unexpected hotness of my friend kneeling in church, and thus about men kneeling in general, and then I suddenly remembered Tenchu.
Tenchu is a game where you play a ninja and sneak around killing people. I looooved it. I’m not a shoot-em-up fan, so creeping round and trying not [...]
Archive for the ‘Heroism and masochism’ Category
Submission in ‘not inherently wimpy’ shocker
Posted in Fucked up world, Heroism and masochism, Submission on January 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Suffering hero(in)es
Posted in Heroism and masochism, Mainstream sadism & dominance on December 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So I was in the shower thinking about heroism and submission and masochism and the like, as you do, and the thought occurred to me that it’s not just our heroes who suffer, but our heroines, too. We have our Atlases and Prometheuses and Odins and Jack Bauers and Wolverines. But we also have Psyche, [...]
Masochistic mansub poster boy of the day: Major Richard Sharpe
Posted in Fighting for money, Heroism and masochism, Mainstream sadism & dominance, Mansub poster boy of the day, sordid, tagged Fighting for money, heroism and masochsim, Mansub poster boy of the day, sordid on November 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Richard Sharpe is a big, tough, rough-and-tumble, suffering (half anti-) hero. He’s been constantly crapped on since day one. His mother was a whore, he grew up in an orphanage, and joined the army (his body being his only means of making a living, and we know how I feel about that) hoping to die [...]
Hurt/Comfort: where are the lines?
Posted in Heroism and masochism, Hurt/Comfort, Mainstream sadism & dominance, tagged Hurt/Comfort on November 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
You know, h/c is such a popular genre of fanfic (and not just the slashy variety) that perhaps we can conclude that mild sadism is actually very common in women. H/c is the socially acceptable face of sadism: the variety where we’re not the ones doing the hurting. Is that social rule the only thing [...]
Pain, shame, and degradation
Posted in Desperation, Fighting for money, Heroism and masochism, Mainstream sadism & dominance, Mansub poster boy of the day, Men who fight back, sordid, tagged Fighting for money, Heroism and masochism, Mainstream sadism & dominance, Mansub poster boy of the day, Men who fight back, sordid on November 9, 2008 | 17 Comments »
One of my favourite men-in-pain is Wolverine. ‘Does it hurt?’ ‘Every time.’ Plus, you know, he was a test subject for a mad scientist, locked up, tied down, all manner of horrible things done to his body. He’s practically a mansub poster boy. Then there’s the whole unrequited love thing.
So, I [...]
