taraliyah

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Right so playboy is 70% soft core porn and 30% articles. If that’s your closest comparison, you’re still significantly off. You could have no interest in porn and still pick up Fourth Wing or ACOTAR to read. If you skipped the sex scenes you’d only be skipping like 10-15 pages total out of 400+. The same cannot be said for playboy. if you wanted to skip the soft core porn in the magazine you’d be skipping far more pages than you’d read. Nobody who’s uninterested in softcore porn would pick that up.

@taraliyah @Rach4Patriarchy Ah, the old, "I subscribe to Playboy because of the interesting articles" cope. I don't care if people consume porn. Don't try to gaslight me about how someone's porn is less porny than someone else's porn. It's silly & pedantic.

The cope machine is in full overdrive. The “conservative” feminists are panicking, desperately attempting damage control. None of them can beat me in a debate and there’s nothing they can do about it. She has me blocked, but you can go to her page and enjoy the meltdown.

Tbh I wouldn’t really consider fourth wing or ACOTAR as a porn book. Does it feature explicit sex scenes? Yes. But those make up a fraction of the book. It’s like 55% plot, 40% romance and 5% sexually explicit scenes. It would be like arguing a tv show with two sex scenes in its series is a porn show. Clearly the wrong conclusion. Porn that men watch is primarily 98% porn and 2% plot. So I don’t think the comparison here is as 1:1 as you guys would like to claim.

@taraliyah @Rach4Patriarchy I think the thrust of the argument is women are trying to dismiss these types of books as examples of pornography. Many of these books explicitly describe sexual acts, in great detail, between characters.

“Is it a little bit homophobic to focus on the straights of Hormuz rather than the gays of Hormuz?” No Kings protester, completely serious: “Yes, absolutely, I agree.”

this is really taking me out man

@PanopticonBot @Rach4Patriarchy It’s crazy that I find myself constantly explaining the basics of how things work to people who act like they already know

It’s not. I checked the categories just for you. 1 in science fiction erotica. Its competitors are books no one’s ever heard of and also have few ratings on Goodreads. Which means this is clearly a niche category that most authors don’t select. 19 in humorous erotica - again, not a lot of competition there, it’s basically the same books. Not a category most authors select. And onwards. Also the bestseller category is impacted by trends, not total sales. For example, a book can have 20 sales but still make the top of the list if it sold those copies quicker than other books are selling. It’s about the rate at which the books sell, not how many total sales. That’s why you can find a book with only 21 ratings making third on the best seller chart for science fiction erotica.

It hasn’t been lol. And the social media coverage it’s gotten has mostly come from shoe’s video and people reacting to it, thereby making it a much bigger deal than it ever originally was. But just so you know (since I work closely with Amazon sellers everyday as my job), if you find a niche category, you can easily become a best seller in that category. For example, if this was under the category books > romance > monster erotica, then it can be a best seller while only having sold 300 copies, simply bc there’s no competition under monster erotica. That was just an example bc idk what the book’s category actually is, but that’s how best seller rankings work on Amazon. Something being a best seller in an Amazon category does not necessarily mean it’s a widely consumed item.

@taraliyah @Rach4Patriarchy Then why it is on top of the sales lists at Amazon for months straight

It’s more on the redpill side of Twitter. I go back and forth w them sometimes so I get their tweets on my tl. Quite a few of them tend to transvestigate women online, and one of the many things they focus on is the collarbone. They think if you have a strong, defined collarbone, you must be a man. It’s obviously not true but I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what made people think they need to get their collarbones removed or whatever

@taraliyah @So2Speak23 Where the hell do you guys see all these men from

“She’d be so much hotter without a collarbone” is not a sentence a single man has ever uttered since the dawn of humanity.

If you’re working on your taxes this week don’t forget to report your income from illegal activities and stolen property

@Aella_Girl Tbh you’re pretty, I think if you just learned to blowdry your hair and adopted a more chic and mature style, you’d feel more confident. Hairstyle and fashion matter more than you might think. You don’t need surgery to fix anything imo

i am aware my face is mid. I had ppl rate it (and also i have eyes) and i'm clearly mid. i agree this makes it confusing as to how I've been so incredibly successful as a sex worker

@TheDiegoTrombon Oh my god??

I've never been particularly impressed by Canadians but I didn't think they were this stupid. Amirite @taraliyah ?

@Rach4Patriarchy No, I remember seeing this clip from the video when she initially said this. It’s from a few months ago. Someone just slapped a TikTok filter on it and put subtitles, but she pretty much said this in the interview. It was a sit-down with Monika Lewinsky youtu.be/zuoFm5mm2oM

Wow, this would be some incredible self reflection, especially for a famous woman. I’m a little skeptical though just because of the jump cuts if somebody put this together to make it look like she regretted this and maybe that’s not exactly what she said in the interview?

i been laughing at this video for hours now bruh

girl not the kia asylum

@bluewmist Dyson airwrap (never had to get my hair done again) and litter robot

What is a 'buy it for life' item that is offensively expensive, but the moment you use it, you realize your entire life before that point was a lie?

@myturntobeferal @a1ready0ver @cryeyesviolet_ You realize that’s less than 2 seconds per song right

@a1ready0ver @cryeyesviolet_ Im pretty sure a lot of us here can break that record lol

wait what’s the record for taylor? i wanna try

@ethanp0iss0n I know she missed that you’re joking but the fact that she thought you were serious and encouraged you is mildly concerning

My stepmom texting me this and this being the fit check,,,,,,The last sentence also im crying

What wrong with my fries