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it's time for a ramble. You know how I like to ramble randomly on random art bits. Another one of those 'what the hell is this dipshit talking about, the pretentious autistic dickhead.' I can't help it, it's just how I think things through with the things I make and I like to talk about it.

There is a struggle for me with SKKW where the fine line is straddled on making erotica that's still got that 'it' factor where it's horny arousing, contrasted with the fact that as a whole it is still always in part a satirical reflection on both the vore community, and pro wrestling as an industry. At its best for me, when the one off art is something that I consider not just trashy or self indulgent but worth canonically considering, it's dark, murky, and should have the audience feel unclean in some way. There's an aspect of perverse exploitation to it. I think it's one of those things where it should get worse like a gut punch with context. The difference between the fantasy of the kayfabe SKKW the company projects, and the reality of everything behind the scenes - the inner workings that make up its whole. I think it's definitely something where you kind of have to be able to look at it in two different ways, and I do often struggle does what I want to convey get muddled if it does seem to do exactly what it criticizes.

Lang and Veryl's weird work relationship is something that's like oh I can't get too into it until Book 1 is finished, and I start Book 2 whenever the fuck that will be due to sssssssspoilers. To my viewing audience the harrowing context more just seems like 'oh isn't that messed up there's a person digesting in there and she has to be pressed up against that for the sake of the free market' but it goes much further than that.

Her position in the company as essentially a token woman hire (she is the ONLY woman) to bolster Veryl's internalized homophobia, to reinforce the ideal he wishes to project as the prototypical ideal of the straight man living in luxury (in terms of wrestling think Triple H at Wrestlemania XXX or MJF at All In 2023 - both cases women waited and bowed to them as props for the aesthetic of royalty). He's the king who sits on a throne with a pretty woman in his lap. Lang is essentially propped up initially as pseudo trophy wife for promotional purposes. Leaning into very sexist and misogynistic portrayals of her as a woman because the mostly male audience doesn't give a shit about her for her, but more how she acts as an accessory to the men around her. Which is something very unfortunate in stuff aimed at the male gaze mostly within porn, but also pro wrestling in the West. Even when she's moved from being eye candy in the ring, to just the announcer outside of it, she's still sort of a punching bag for Bill and Murph to crack jokes at the expense of (especially in Murph's case it's like he should know better as a trans man having first hand knowledge of how awful of a position that is to be in, but he has his own struggle to pick with wanting to assimilate into being 'one of the boys tm' (but Lang does snap back in offensive ways - look, everyone is a piece of shit in at least some way within SKKW but the capacity of empathy for systemic issues should not be overlooked due to the problems of the individual, that's kind of one of the main points narratively as a whole)). Lang's made to seem small, weak, and vulnerable in contrast to how she actually is - headstrong, contemptuous, and with a strong sense of self. Ultimately those values go out the window for the sake of having an income - she's a struggling ex convict, she's already at a rock bottom and for her she's kind of made to think, much like everybody else working there, that this is the best there will ever be for her. So she puts up with it. 

This became way WAY fucking longer of a ramble than I thought it would be but ehhh eh eeehhh.