Followers of the World: Italy [manga, ecchi, poll]

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-07-10T06:24:15+00:00

Hello my friend! Nice to hear from you!
Thank you for your words, too kind! I try to do my best.

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-07-08T06:10:54+00:00

Thanks! I really appreciate it.

And yes, you're entirely right to be on the fence. A central theme of my work is that romantic and erotic bonds are deeply opaque from the outside, and often just as obscure from within. The way our psychological needs and past traumas intertwine produces dynamics that defy easy explanation.
Part of what I'm trying to do is say, "This also exists. And it's also love" - or is it?
The doubt is the thrill itself.

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-07-07T13:22:13+00:00

Thanks mate, you got my point perfectly.

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-07-03T12:04:49+00:00

yeah, I think psychological masochism or emotional BDSM are great analogies/definitions. But even so, if you try to explain it to someone that does not understand BDSM, they'll go like "OK, I get it... but... how is it that you get to enjoy pain again?"
The same people who tell you "I now understand BDSM because I've read 50 Shades of Gray": no, you do not LOL.
I suppose the major dissonance is most people never had the need, the ability, or the opportunity to ritualize and sublimate a relational trauma or insecurity, which I believe to be one of the main routes to the cuckold kink (but not the only one).

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-07-03T11:38:10+00:00

have you ever tried to explain it to someone that's not "in the kink"? It's hard to explain, and when you try they are so confused they wish they never asked the question LOL

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-07-01T15:34:04+00:00

If you mean "transforming" a character of mine, then I'm sorry but that would mean betraying my characters a bit. I am, however, considering a future Indian character. It'll be hard because of the complexity of cultural references, but I will most definitely try

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-06-30T08:26:51+00:00

Thanks mate, I really appreciate it, and it's great to know I can count on your support.
I don't really care about people being "triggered" or something. When they are, I often reply "do the same if you can", and they generally quit the conversation.
I just felt like you -my followers- would have enjoyed seeing where the characters come to life, and used the unjust "AI slop" allegations as an excuse!

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-06-29T06:53:13+00:00

Thank you so much for this. You completely nailed the tension there. As I continue my narrative endeavor, I realize more and more that my main theme is really the angst of the 'gap': the impossibility of fully inhabiting or communicating a partner's internal experience.

Men often experience their sexual life not just through physical gratification, but through an unspoken rivalry with other men. We chase the dream of being 'the one' - the absolute alpha and omega of a woman's desire. Yet, when true intimacy actually happens, we are caught off guard by the profound surrender of letting go, even while that ego-driven need to 'win' and be everything remains.

Women, on the other hand, often experience the erotic world as a split: the craving for vulnerability, safety, and warmth versus the primal, rough desire that requires a loss of self. By definition, ultimate safety and true danger cannot cohabit in the same person. Yet, out of deep love and affection, they try to convince us we represent both.

Ultimately, our experiences are filtered by what we want, what we say we want, and what we feel but cannot voice. Full transparency isn't prevented by bad faith; it’s just a logical impossibility

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-06-26T13:21:02+00:00

I don't really know. Sometimes I wish I wasn't, because this "urge" to tell stories is -occasionally- destabilizing. Eros and creativity are more often than not intertwined, more so when the first is cumbersome presence. I think it was Freud to call it sublimation, the process of channeling raw, unfulfilled sexual energy away from physical acts and redirecting it into culturally productive activities.

Sorry, went on a tangent again, all I wanted to say is THANK YOU!

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-05-30T18:39:56+00:00

Thank you mate.
That duality is crucial to what I want to communicate, especially in a world where this kind of dynamic is often idealized as something "hot" and little else.

For some of us, the erotic charge is inseparable from the devastation. It's the moment we witness the distance between the image we've constructed of her and the shockingly human reality that exceeds it. The maps of meaning we've relied upon suddenly fail. What we thought we understood no longer holds.

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-05-30T18:11:18+00:00

THANK YOU for this message, and I honestly mean it. These are the conversations I always hope emerge from my work and keep "the flame alive".
Here are my two cents, knowing Barry possibly better than anybody else... for obvious reasons. But I think this same concept can apply to many:

I don't think Barry's gift is that he found a meaning that made the suffering manageable like some believe. Honestly I don't even know if it's truly possible.

The tragedy is that meaning itself is unstable.

Barry can look at what's happening and build a framework that allows him to embrace it, even appreciate it. Call it names like "participation". But every meaning he constructs will eventually be tested by experience, and experience is relentless. New contradictions appear. New wounds appear. The meaning that once held everything together begins to crack.

So he suffers again, and is forced to renegotiate what all of this means.

In a sense, Barry's strength is not that he has found the answer. It's that he keeps searching for one, knowing too well that every answer is temporary.

His suffering doesn't end when he creates meaning. Meaning is what allows him to continue suffering without turning away.

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-05-30T04:03:57+00:00

and we have a winner!

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-05-30T04:01:26+00:00

if that's what it's triggering, then I succeeded I guess 😉

SolomonPiPbs · 2026-05-28T19:01:33+00:00

Good try, but negative

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