Mechsplo-rule-tation (CW: Breasts (not the focus of the image), implication of petplay(just in case?))
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Obligatory "Warhound changed my brain chemistry and not neccesarily for better" lol
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I am more of a "voluntary submission" kind of guy. Didn't vibe with the book, stopped reading at the end of the first part.
And that's honestly fair and valid! Not all stories are for everyone. For example, I don't find Human Domestication Guide (which I consider kinda adjacent to Warhound/Mechsploitation, at least in terms of "lose autonomy") appealing to me because I'm more of a "malicious empire" enjoyer than "benevolent empire" one.
First time I hear about that community project, I will check it a little. I am more wired to search for a place where I am comfortable and letting myself go, I don't like people deciding for me. I guess this could be the reason I don't vibe with the genre.
It still takes autonomy away unconsented, and I think also has themes of losing oneself (honestly, I haven't gotten that much into it to talk about it knowing what I'm saying), but that "benevolent empire" is genuinely benevolent, just in a "I'm gonna help you against your desires in ways you may not want to and make you happy in a way you would otherwise hate"
what the actual f are you even saying
It's a Warhound aG📕cÇyL meme. @[email protected]’s life has changed after reading the book, not necessarily for the better, as Maven has probably developed a BDSM kink with mechas and the Dommies you see on the bottom right of the meme.
I definitely don't wanna be Sartha Thrace and be turned into a barely human but still valuable weapon of war for a fascist mommy that abuses me like the object I am to her, at all (/s)
then i apologize
no need to apologize. This meme & book is very niche. you’d had to be terminally online to get it
Guess I'm officially terminally online now lol (Tbf I found it due to someone posting a meme on a less niche subreddit)
This is the meme where I found out about the community
The artist is punkitt, her ko-fi.
With this meme I thought that the story would be about mecha fights and politics but it is more character driven from the small sample I got and very horny in my opinion.
Well, what part did you not understand?
honestly, nothing. but the explanation i understand and i apologize
Warhound is a mech, smut and horror story that has a Hound-Handler dynamic. The Hound is a pilot that is heavily brainwashed, dehumanized, abused, exploited, and a Handler is their superior that inflicts that abuse on them and who they obey to.
In Warhound the Hounds wear muzzles, like fucking boots, and have trigger words that make them go feral, and the Handlers generally wear leather and use drugs to brainwash the Hounds.
Mechsploitation is the genre it belongs to, which I'd say it's rather broad. Technically any mech story with exploitation fits, but I'd say the Hound-Handler thing is an iconic trope of it.
The content warnings (CW) in the title are just put to follow the community rules.
It's probably a shit explanation still, but I said what I could lol