I'm surprised more people aren't throwing a fit about "But Genji is Japanese omg cultural eracure. He shouldn't be giving ANYONE chocolates, only getting them!! He should wait a month and give White Day gifts like they do in Glorious Nippon!!!"
i'm a fucking moron and only saved the bib from my initial presentation write-up, the rest is on a gdrive of an e-mail account i no longer have access to BUT it's a good place to start, at least:
International Business, Times. "EA Blasted By Anti-Gay Activists: 'Mass Effect 3' And Top 5 LGBT Video Game Characters." International Business Times May 0004: Regional Business News. Web. 23 Nov. 2013.
International Business, Times. "5 Examples Of Gay Marriage In Video Games [VIDEO]." International Business Times 27 June 2013: Regional Business News. Web. 23 Nov. 2013.
Vargas, Jose Antonio. "Coming Out Of The Virtual Closet." Advocate 978 (2007): 62. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 23 Nov. 2013.
Sliwinski, Alexander. "First-ever survey of gay videogamers." Washington Blade June 2007: Academic Search Complete. Web. 23 Nov. 2013.
in addition to these, i've just watched hundreds of hours on youtube of playthroughs of games with gay characters, panels at gaymerx and other LGBT-friendly conventions, and all that. a lot of those "top X" lists are just jumping off points you can use to find other examples.
i came across this sfm that was widowtracer and i think it was futa but you couldn't really see, widow was fucking tracer while she was firing her rifle and i thought it was really hot.
the one time i was remotely interested in widowtracer.
"amy" asks you if you'd be willing to play out something that's controversial such as bestiality, lolicon/shotacon, non-con, vanilla sex in the missionary position with the lights off, whatever.
situation A: you say sure, you're open to it or sure, you'll try it out. you don't show any obvious signs of being into it or against it.
situation B: you say sure, you're secretly into that gross shit.
amy then tries to paint you as a sick fuck either on anoncomms or in your friend group.
what do you do?
alternate situation: same situation, complete with A and B options, but you're not openly into smut and you use alts/socks to post on the kink threads in anon comms. so A outed you as a smut player AND someone who's open to controversial smut. same question, what do you do?
yeah, i got the impression the protagonists were supposed to be unsympathetic too. my problem is the author's done such a good job of creating a pair of deeply disturbed monomaniacs i don't feel all that bothered about what happens to either of them, and if i'm not interested in the characters i know i won't get on with a story. i had the same problem with a novel a few years back - the author had written such a convincing bunch of egocentric, self-deluding, narrow-minded asshole characters that i didn't want to spend much time around them because seriously you are all annoying as fuck, go away. which is a shame, because i find the premise of stalking killing absolutely fascinating. it's not so fascinating as to make me want to spend 13 chapters plus around a pair of characters i think are both irritating bastards, though.
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