Plastic Venus
A downloadable adventure
The heatwave has stretched on for three long weeks and will go on for another two. People step quick and quiet between buildings to avoid the heat. AC units strain. Those working outside burn a deep red. At night, it remains hot. There is no escape.
A modern-day investigative adventure for Violence. Ritual, replication, degradation and obsession. Possession, assertion, submission and consequence.
Content warnings for sex work and violence.
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read your post on Carcosa recently, i can see that showing through this in a really exciting way. i think this is good work towards integration. but being so anchored real world rhetorics/consequences of violence left me wishing venus had been more alien, or more subversive. she was exactly what the men wanted.
something i was thinking a lot about is the dichotomy of financial freedom whilst renting out your body/identity in the context of (traditional*) sex work, and how the act of selling is identity creation/curation. the venus form is, to me anyway, a literalisation of this - all the power and no ability to wield it. in my mind, something like this done deliberately could have provided far more positive results. instead, the now-nameless woman had this status inflicted upon her. for a more positive version, this might be something she learnt to control over the coming months. i'm loathe to suggest a unified mythology for my violence adventures, but given what has been established i don't think that would have gelled.
in any case, thank you for taking the time to write this out and think about the work deeply - it's much appreciated!
*from some of the research i did for this, there's a far more positive vision of what the pornography industry could be, worker owned and inherently less exploitative. of course, it's much less popular than the meat grinder mainstream industry.
this is too powerful
this turned my stomach in knots. i expected nothing less.
Words cannot express the experience of reading this module. Abandon hope all ye who press "download now"
I'm scared
She’s hereeeee