hi so i forgot to message the person who was next (sorry HelltakerHomosexual) so i'm just gonna talk about a thing i like
Shadow the Hedgehog is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Characterized by his sharp wit and strong sense of purpose, Shadow is a recurrent arch-rival of Sonic the Hedgehog, whom he resembles and shares many abilities. He is a major supporter of trans people, as evidenced by his catchphrase, "Trans people are cool!"
^ this is all from the wiki btw
I like Shadow a lot. His first appearance in the series is in a game where him and Sonic are both fighting the government and destroying these multi-million dollar gunships. Sonic is doing it because he loves communism but Shadow is doing it because he has a blood feud against G.U.N., who are like the global government death squads because they killed this girl, Maria, who he was best friends with.
Maria basically had an incurable illness that Eggman's grandpa was trying to cure by creating an immortal lifeform, which is actually how Shadow was born. Also, Shadow has a copy of Maria's soul I guess? Seriously, look it up. I'm reading all this shit for the first time right now and that sounds kinda trans to me.
Anyway, she gets shot by the troops and despite Maria telling Shadow to be normal and happy, Eggman's grandpa is pissed off about it so he starts psyopping Shadow into wanting to kill everyone on Earth. Eggman's grandpa successfully does the psyop and locks Shadow away until Eggman finds and releases him.
With his newfound power, Shadow starts being evil and helping Eggman find the Chaos Emeralds because he sees him piss on the moon or something. This goes on for a while until he gets back on the space station and remembers what Maria said, deciding to finally be normal and happy.
He switches up, goes Hyper Shadow and helps Sonic defeat the Biolizard which is basically what it sounds like: a giant lizard who wears the space station like a little jacket and shoots lasers from his mouth. Also, that thing was the prototype Ultimate Lifeform before they decided on the optimal form of existence: a little bipedal anthro hedgehog.
So they beat this lizard up, I guess it dies and then the space station is hurtling toward the Earth. Shadow takes a Chaos Emerald and, with the help of Sonic, does one last Chaos Control on the space station, returning it to a stable altitude. Sonic finds himself back on the space station as he flies into the atmosphere. After this, a big semi-translucent Shadow appears on top of the Earth and everyone can see it.
Why would I lie about that? Here it is.
Anyway, a bunch of shit happens after that but I don't care about it. If someone else wants to talk about Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) feel free. What I really wrote this out to justify talking about is the moon in Sonic games. Like I said before, the moon gets pissed on and destroyed with the help of Shadow,
and then in the next game it's just fine but evil now(???)
and after THAT it's not evil anymore but it's fully intact:
What the fuck? Why? How? I watched it get blown up. Who put the moon back together? Anyway, we're getting in the weeds here. Welcome to the mega.
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::: spoiler Title Yeah, I read wellness check and then the original hdg thing.
It seems like every story has the actual pet aspect, as that seems to be the ghoice of the original author so everything is just built on it.
Like I read the rules for a story, and it seems like the og author wants it to be a setting of pet ownership and hypnosis. Doesn't really seem like there are any cutouts for people without the same exact kinks as the author. Which I like get why the author would want it written a certain way IG they created it, but dammit I want the plant people to not be imperialists!
Sorry if I'm just repeating the same shit over and over again, I do that a lot and its hard to manage it.
Anyways, yeah there isn't really any stories that don't have the forced pet shit. Unfortunate because I would love a setting where it was all species being equal.
As for other Smit, I ahvent found much. Only have like the past 6 months of me trying yo find good smut, and there is just so much shit that even with the tags that scratch my brain right will just have theming that puts me off.
I also lost my bookmarks because I forgot my ff password so I lost about half of my smut, so i need to dig out a laptop i habe Form 2 months ago to See if any oft my favorites are in it.
But for ones i do habe that i think are atleast okay,
i have "catgirl hipnotises you." Does what it says on the tin, catgirl hypnotises you and you turn into a cstgirl from it. Its alright, but not great https://readonlymind.com/@elizzyviolet/CatgirlHypnotizesYou/
I have "A little friendly competition," which is hypnotizing 2 straight girls into lesbians which is alright https://readonlymind.com/@HypnoBunny/ALittleFriendlyCompetition/
And now that I'm looking at my list... that's kinda it for ones I find at least a 6/10. A lot of stories will have some identity of someone as a dog/catgirl, then will fumble it in my mind of having it be purely kink or have some ownership aspect. A lot of stories also love including LOTS of fluids, and I've realized that fluids which just kind gross me out I'm realizing. Like I'm fine with a bit of fluids just existing, but the stories will be describing in detail the fluids and textures of it and I'll just be sitting here thinking how I'd rather do anything else than imagine awful textures in or on me. Like stories will have tags which do an alright job filtering stuff, but there is a wide berth of what the "dog( )girl" categories will have regarding it being identity or petplay. And then there is just nothing regarding whether there is a heavy emphasis on fluids.
I wonder if I just need to look for non-smut stories, because so many smut stories will have such wildly different ways I dislike them. Maybe that could help with regards to getting identity related dog/catgirl stuff and less petplay.
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Edit- also I'm realizing me seeing your comment talking about wellness check was like 2 accounts ago for me, and the time still just feels like a couple months ago. Wild
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On some level it did make me chuckle, literal fully automated luxury gay space communist plant creatures clearly being what humanity needs to break free the shackles of capitalism. The author's work, I guess... No need to apologise though, I happen to pretty much agree. Unsurprisingly I've had mixed responses to throwing HDG at people, lol.
Goddamn, my condolences
I will poke your two links sometime, but it doesn't surprise me that smut usually has a kink focus in this respect, which kinda sucks. Guess it'll end up being one of those "write what you want to see" things...
Thank fuck someone agrees, yeah uh wow I've never related so hard. A textural issue... Now realising that this is probably a large share of why I kind of hate that too. Type of thing that should be tagged honestly.
If you post about non-smut adventures in fiction I will probably wanna read that too, if you find any good non-smut stories I'd be interested. Sounds like a good idea :)
Also I had no idea you were changing accounts, but
I went and checked, last time I rec'd HDG was almost a year ago, last time I mentioned it at all was six months ago lmao
Should clarify I meant to type wild and it corrected to W as if I was very exited about switching accounts for some reason. I switched accounts purely because I got bored of the usernames, and Lemmy still hasn't added any means to change username to my knowledge.