-op posts starts off asking "if someone uses the same username everywhere would you feel bad if they were doxxed" -another anon replied that doxxing was more than listing a bunch of social media accounts, and it seemed like they were downplaying the situation op described (where someone actually got doxxed instead of just having their twitter/facebook/etc leaked) -i tried to explain that social media accounts can be used to dig up info that can be used for doxxing -as far as i can tell, either the same anon or a new anon seemed to think that i tried to argue "nooo doxxing is totally just listing social media accounts" and explained what doxxing was, even though i already knew. -i elaborated further on how social media can be used to dig up info since they missed the point the first time.
mostly i was just trying to explain what was going on here.
104,491 results are labeled r18 only, and it's safe to say there's well more that's sexual without branching into r18 territory, since pxiv doesn't have a catalog category for soft-ero.
so that kind of proves anon's point that the majority of the time, it's used for porn.
shota describes a type of porn, but it absolutely can be and is used just as slang for a young anime boy. hell, i was literally just reading an infobook for one of my fandoms where the creator says his initial idea for one of the characters was "a shota". it's not a porn game, he literally says "a shota" meaning a small/young boy.
anon, idk how to break this to you, but there's a cultural nuance you are desperately missing here. when people say "shota" they don't just literally mean a young male. they mean a young male the audience will feel an attraction to. a work doesn't have to be strictly pornographic for this to be a thing. this has gone on for decades, and is a pretty big debate in parts of japanese fandom, and why some fanartists refuse to use words like that in their works, and others use them despite otherwise not drawing porn. there's some element of innocence to it, but it's still a "you'd want this kid as your boyfriend (or more often, plaything)" kind of thing.
i mean you're going to yell and hammer at your keyboard about how wrong that is or how it's a "lie" or whatever, but that's how things are. anon was probably too blunt in their wording, but the essence of the point is that if you go around calling your young male RP characters "shotas", people are gonna side eye you. it's just how things are.
if it was a completely innocent shorthand, you wouldn't see the lolita fashion industry explicitly avoiding it when designing masculine clothes (they use "boy style" instead).
some people using it innocently doesn't wash off the connotations that most people associate it with
i'm aware of this you fucking pedantic moron, but you might notice this whole tangent is pointless and has nothing to do with the original dispute. anon said it's not a word for young boys at all, but a word strictly for porn, which is fucking wrong. check their comment about curating japanese fanart and never having seen the word "shota" in relation to anything that wasn't porn.
literally no one brought up desirability until you because it wasn't even the crux of the issue. you wrote this whole irrelevant comment just to hear yourself talk.
idk. the impression i'm getting here is that shota is used for a character type that some fans are attracted to, and even if the art isn't actual porn the art is still supposed to be appealing. so while saying that it's used only for porn is inaccurate, leaving out the connection between tame shota art and porn/the kink/desirability is intellectually dishonest.
for being in a reading and writing hobby you guys really suck at reading
anon, "shota" isn't a word used for young boys. it's pretty much only exclusively used in reference to shotacon, though it can also be a name, but it's still not a word for young boys.
they didn't even say that shota is occasionally used to describe a young (and typically intended to be cute/desirable for the anon who desperately wanted to go off on a tangent about this) boy, they got it mixed up with the name Shouta and deemed that the other, less common usage for it
um, no? the force isn't god or any other conscious being or deity. force ghosts happen because the force user has the strength, knowledge, and will to retain part of themselves after death.
the force doesn't redeem anyone because it doesn't care. it doesn't have the ability to care. it's just...the force. it exists and can be tapped into, but it's not a conscious being in any way.
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