Images of the night, FFXI.

[thistlechaser]

I had what was going to be the worst image ever posted in my LJ. A mix of gross and sex (sort of). But then I found something much worse and it killed my desire to even think about gross things tonight: The trouble with my random LJ image sites is that you never know what you're going to get. Okay, that's also the plus side, but tonight it really just killed my evening.

(I've never put a warning for text before, but if you like animals you might want to skip this next paragraph. ; ; )
I was scrolling down the page and came to a large image, big enough that I could only see part of it at a time. At the top of the image was a woman's foot in a shiny black high heel shoe, with a kitten weaved in around the heel. Scroll down. Woman pressing (looked like lightly pressing) the heel into the kitten's side, the cat looked like it was being played with. Scroll down. Kitten biting the shoe. Cute! Scroll down. Kitten asleep, heel right over the kitten's eye. ...okay, this was getting odd. Ha ha? Must be a joke? Threatening a cute kitten? *stupid me scrolls down* Kitten dead, head smushed, killed by the black high heel shoe's heel/point. Oh my god. D: D: D: D: D:

I can name nothing on the net which disturbs me. Tubgirl? Gross, but meh. 2girls1cup? Gross but so amusing when others see it. pain.jpg? I hosted that image for years and still use it as my anti-image stealing picture. This bothered me a hell of a lot. (And yes, I know there's a whole fetish about people who get off on women killing small furry animals with their high heel shoes.) Poor, poor kitten. I wish I could forget the sight of its blood and brains. I try to tell myself it was fake (I know it wasn't, but I'd accept a lie at this point.) Horrible people. :(

Anyway. Here are the two more positive images of the night:

Ten hamburgers to you if you can explain this.

This second link is NWS. Male/male sexuality warning. Is this hot or not? I've seen this posted a few places tonight, and everyone who posts it drools over it, but very oddly it does less than nothing for me. Pinned-against-the-wall should be hot. Blindfolding is hot. Their bodies are okay (not to my tastes, but not bad). It's just that something about it seems so... fake... to me. Even though they're kissing and so close, it feels like they have no connection. I wonder if it's just me though...

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I want Catsoup to skill (alchemy) on cannon shells, which require smithing and goldsmithing subcrafts. Tonight I settled down to hack away at those. No exaggeration, goldmithing 1-13 was many times harder than alchemy 1-89 -- skillups were slower, it was way more annoying, and (while I know this part isn't true) it felt like it was a darned lot more expensive.

Hate gold.

Also did smithing 14-24. Reinforced my dislike of smithing. My last crafting mule will not be smithing for sure. Need ~5 more levels of smithing tomorrow though, then can go back to skilling alchemy for a while. (Though I may take woodworking to 55 for a bunch of "free" skillups later...)

Comments

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

It's just that something about it seems so... fake... to me. Even though they're kissing and so close, it feels like they have no connection. I wonder if it's just me though.

Totally not just you. They're concentrating too hard on the posing, there's no sense of need or intensity or lust. The not-blindfolded guy is so focusing on thrusting his arse out as far as possible.

[liedra.livejournal.com]

Agreed. It looks far too posed and... yeah. There needs to be something natural about these things! And that just doesn't quite have it. The rest of it is hot though :)

[calandra.livejournal.com]

Umm, no. I can't explain that. Mind altering chemicals on the part of the director/photographer maybe.

And yes. It is fake. It looks staged. I would guess it was taken as a still. They should have been moving when it was taken. The postures and expressions are static. mho.

[aelice.livejournal.com]

They look like mannequins, so I feel like it's more of a life drawing than an erotic piece, you know? :< If it were raw, with the blindfolded guy behind held to the floor and showing emotion as the other guy embraced him.. that would be a bit more hot. XD

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

The horrible person murdering a small, helpless trusting animal? Send her here. The photographer too. I have a 12 gauge shotgun, a tractor with all sorts of interesting implements, and 60 acres of woods. I will make sure they twist a loooong time before they die. Bastards.

I usually don't mind kinks. Whatever turns you on, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. But that is just...evil.

[xvolph.livejournal.com]

No offense, but you didn't need to tell us about it... or at least put it behind a cut with an appropriate warning. I didn't need to read about it.

[xvolph.livejournal.com]

I guess I should clarify, I refer to the part about the kitten. I don't mean to tell you what you can and can't put on your LJ, but I find that more of a sensitive issue than anything else. The rest, I don't mind.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you hit it right on the head. They're posing, it's not got the intensity of something caught mid-action.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Agreed. The idea behind it is hot, just not the execution.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

They should have been moving when it was taken.

I think that would have made a lot of difference, yeah.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha, mannequins! You're right. :D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha, I'd happily send them to you for that treatment!

I usually don't mind kinks. Whatever turns you on, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. But that is just...evil.

100% agreed. I'm all for any kink people are into, as long as everyone involved is an adult and consents.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That's why I put the warning on it, yes. This line:

(I've never put a warning for text before, but if you like animals you might want to skip this next paragraph. ; ; )

[calandra.livejournal.com]

I've been playing with Blender, a 3D modeling program over the last few months. I just finished a tutorial about adding all those little blurs to make a generated image look less sterile.

Of course here, I think it has to do more with muscle tension (or lack of it). ^^

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

I am too conflicted to comment much about the first part of your entry, so I'll skip that for now. Doesn't mean I'm not affected by it; it's just that I can't figure out how I feel.

As for your links, I have no idea what's going on in the first one (and thank god as I don't eat red meat), but I'm pretty sure that yellow stuff is the scrambled egg that comes out of an egg breakfast sandwich. The second...yeah, agreed with the fakeness, but I'm pretty sure it's done on purpose. Very interesting image, though.

I wish I could cheer you up with some of my homemade bread (yay, it's my first loaf ever!), but I don't even know if it's going to turn out to be edible.

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

Hamburgerdudes is kinda awesome in a strange way.

The wall picture is cool, but not hot to me. It's something that would make a very lovely sculpture, but there's no dynamism, and it's more about the interesting body lines and visual impact than anything erotic.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, to both thoughts.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, homemade bread! Yay! I've not tried making any in ages! How'd it come out?

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

It came out really, really well. I was so pleased.