• QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
    26·
    20 hours ago

    I don’t understand what they were thinking

    “The Staff: A Different Kind of RPG”, and the picture is a naked minotaur looking down at a topless buff dude.

    You might as well have called it “The Really Big Dick: This Aint For Kids” and had the minotaur’s cock on the dude’s head. That’s the only way it could possibly have been any more suggestive.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      It says LITRPG, not RPG. LITRPG is a story genre.

      (Edit: this is meant to be informative, not condescending. I hadn’t heard of that genre until semi recently.)

      • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        3 hours ago

        It implies a furry wrote it. Which only increases the chances our hero will be swallowing an all beef hot dog.

        I wonder if this is some viral marketing campaign. Where it was intentionally made sexual to get people talking about “what it looks like”

    • TractorDuffy@lemmy.world
      111·
      1 day ago

      roll a D8, the result determines the outcome of your conversation:

      1. the minotaur fucks you
      2. you removed the minotaur
      3. the minotaur attacks you
      4. a trap door opens under you dropping you into a sex dungeon
      5. the minotaur starts crying (you monster)
      6. the minotaur proposes
      7. you trip and accidentally stab the minotaur to death (you monster)
      8. the minotaur fucks you

      I’d play the removed out of that game

      • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        1 day ago

        That’s literally just the text adventure video game Corruption of Champions (CoCs). The sci-fi version is Trials in Tainted Space (TiTS).

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
      17·
      2 days ago

      There’s a market out there for literally any kind of smut you can think of. It might be a small market, but there will be a market.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
        5·
        20 hours ago

        There’s a market hungry for smut about literary agents who reject manuscripts for Amazon prime printing being pounded up the butt by their own rejected manuscripts. If you can think it, Doctor Chuck Tingle has written it being pounded up the butt. I think that’s rule 34L

      • TouchMacaque@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Hell there’s even a market for market based smut where craft markets are having anal sex with farmers markets while simultaneously having illicit affairs with stock markets. Everyone needs a little lovin’.

      • AeronMelon@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        And small as it may be, you will get paid better for your minotaur smut than you will for all your non-smut writing combined.

    • truthfultemporarily@feddit.org
      4·
      1 day ago

      Look up “ice planet barbarians”. Forgot the author but there are a lot of different kind of barbarians, orcs, demons, etc. That are rough but with a soft spot, protecting the female lead heroically while taking her for themselves.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      5·
      2 days ago

      An overwhelming amount of booktok/bookstagram (and their mentally challenged brother, bookbook, close relative of Moon Moon) is very much in love with e.g. Morning Glory Milking Farm.

      WARNING: Look that book up at your own peril. You’ve been warned.

        • fonix232@fedia.io
          5·
          15 hours ago

          Compared to some dark romance? Sure. I mean, very, very few things will top the femur scene in I Will Break You (the trigger warnings specifying “inappropriate use of thigh bone” were NOT joking), so compared, indeed tame.

          But for your average non-smut reader, there’s a lot of emphasis on… milking.

          Though still not as full of smut as e.g. Kiss Of The Basilisk. Which is like, 98% pure porn.

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
    11·
    2 days ago

    This is fantastic. Thanks for posting the reddit link, which has now been edited further:

    EDIT 2: Apparently I also owe an apology to the small (but vocal) contingent who really wanted this to be minotaur smut. I’m doing my part. Now get typing.

    Be the change you want to see in the world.

    And the linked thread is basically a writing competition that the author is hosting with a $100 prize. The title is “Announcing the 2026 Beefhammer Prize For Excellence in Minotaur Erotica”. Lovely!

  • yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    The drawing is super suggestive, that Minotaur is ripped, face looking down while his chest pump up showing physical dominance while his “enemy” with his height only achieving the bare minimum to cover his massive huge humongous…personality

  • ramble81@lemmy.zip
    3·
    2 days ago

    Ouch. Seriously, what was he thinking with that cover. Or the artist for that matter. Should have shopped it out to at least one friend and asked “based on the cover, what do you think this is about?”

    I mean the name literally has “The Staff” in it!

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 day ago

    don’t think its gonna sell as good with a different cover. also “A NOVEL NOT ABOUT GAY MINOTAUR SEX?” should be its byline

  • TouchMacaque@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    He’s upset because everyone made the wrong assumption, it’s actually a story about a sentient staff that gets revenge for being used as a sounding rod for 30 years.

  • AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 day ago

    “Jason knew that this was beyond him. And some deep inside him rose. A deep knowing that he could take this the minataur. Sterlingly strong, the minataur stood with a knowing going in his eyes. This wasn’t his first rodeo. “Don’t fail me now” Jason thought as he gripped his staff ever tighter.”

    “The minataur thrust himself at Jason. A tangled mess of limbs and horns, they jostled for position. Jason held the minataur’s head down by the horns. “I’ve got you now” as he moved to thrust his staff deep inside the … The world a twirl, Jason found himself on his back, lurching. Something gored him and the man-beast had struck the first blow. He had never felt anything like this before. The power. The grace. The yearning for release. He was no longer in control. When was the last time he wasn’t in control?”

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
    07·
    1 day ago

    Reading gooner “literature” needs to be shamed, at least when it’s read in public. It shouldn’t be as popular as it is, I’ll tell you that.

    • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      20 hours ago

      This company has existed since the 1940s; reading erotica is not even remotely a new phenomenon and you’re fighting a losing battle if you think you’re going to change that. Maybe you should instead get comfortable with the fact that a healthy sexual appetite is normal and people have been engaging in various forms of mental masturbation since literally the dawn of humanity.

      • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
        14·
        15 hours ago

        There’s a difference between writing things to satisfy a “healthy sexual appetite” and some of the honestly disgusting and insane things that get published. I guess I’m more against literary depravity (like removed involving falling in love with your rapist or family stuff, many Wattpad stories are like that) than I am against just erotica.

        • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          What you find disgusting some will find normal, and what you find normal some will find disgusting. You do not get to be the arbiter of morality for me any more than I get to be the arbiter of morality for you.

          • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
            13·
            8 hours ago

            No, that’s nonsense, things are or aren’t more on the side of virtue than vice and vice versa. If you wanna stand for rape, abuse, coercion, weird age gaps, bestiality, etc. in your literature because it turns you on, that’s you, but it’s depraved. And we all get to speak about it, and you don’t have to agree with what I’m saying.

            • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              8 hours ago

              Literature seems a safe space to explore taboo and challenging ideas to me. Do you carry this same standard for violence* in media? Plenty of books feature grotesque depictions of violence and gore which similarly seeks to titillate, just perhaps not sexually; do you think we should be sounding the alarm on violence in media as well?

              edit: non-sexual violence, to be clear, as you seem to be focusing on rape fantasy in fiction which is, of course, itself violence.

              • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
                11·
                8 hours ago

                No ideas are being challenged by these low-brow smut books, come on, it’s just literary porn. Sometimes considering heretical thoughts is the path to enlightenment, but this isn’t relevant when discussing porn, lol. The difference between these books is whether it allows for people to fantasize about unhealthy, morally questionable kinks and maybe even normalize the things I talked about in the previous post, or not, that’s it. And yes, there’s a limit to everything, I also oppose positively framing pointless non-sexual violence, or just having it in for pleasure/titillation, ofc, who wouldn’t?

        • Emotional_Series7814@piefed.zipOPEnglish
          3·
          13 hours ago

          The question is where do you draw the line? I’m sure that in Victorian times, something like sex with the lights on or anything not heterosexual is

          the honestly disgusting and insane things that get published

          and

          literary depravity

          I think a better question is how do we prevent people from getting hurt in real life, not what do you personally find disgusting. I personally cannot watch horror, pimple-popping, even had to look away during some action movies because I think the injury shown in these is disgusting, I actually have a pretty visceral reaction to it, but I don’t argue for these things that will live rent-free in my head in a negative way to stop existing for everyone. I just don’t consume it, and ask people to tag content appropriately if I see it untagged. But of course, if you injure a person in real life and not just on film or a book, then by all means throw the book at them.

          I do get your discomfort with seeing things in public. I wouldn’t want the shot of the slasher in the middle of violently killing someone on the public ad. I think if it’s got a visual component do not show it in public, but if it’s text you are probably too close to the other person’s book/phone—I don’t try to snoop on strangers in public and still sometimes see what is on their phones, but I don’t look long enough to read.

          • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
            13·
            13 hours ago

            It’s brain poison, and you can waste your time with things that are not nearly as depraved. Stop your perspectivism, at some point these things are just morally wrong and shouldn’t be published (any literature that praises/paints in a good light things like rape, assault, abuse, etc just because it makes people wet). Do I think it’s a big thing overall? No, because this is porn for women and women aren’t outside murdering and raping, that’s almost entirely the domain of men. I do think that, especially for those that come from an amoral, postmodern culture and that never knew what it’s like to have a proper male role model, or what male love should be like because their fathers either weren’t at home or were confused and amoral, it can be somewhat dangerous.