Vore in general is something I really don't like (except for the super cartoony stuff like what most dA artists of a younger nature would make, in which case, I'm just indifferent), but I honestly am offended by/hate soft vore MORE than hard vore, which is probably an unusual mindset.
For those who don't know the difference, hard vore is literally just straight up the victim being torn up and eaten. It's gory and raw "monster/feral animal eats person/creature". I don't like it either (it's often used for people to express their hate for fictional characters or whatever which just seems petty, especially in fandoms for family friendly characters and their respective universe/show/game/etc), but at the very least, that is merely just violence and gore, and nothing more - I can stomach violence and gore. It's shallow and it honestly isn't that eventful in most cases.
But soft vore entails that the victim is kept in one piece, but (in non-cartoony or humourous contexts), it also generally entails that the victim is digested slowly over time. That's honestly just more depressing.
But what really gets to me about soft vore, in combination with the above, is the fact that it's a popular sexual fetish. So what most non-humourous soft vore imagery/comics end up being about, is a beautiful female character being portrayed as a completely helpless damsel in distress (even if said character is super powerful canonically), picked up by a monster while struggling to get out (usually by tentacles or something sharp, like a claw of a monster), having their clothes ripped off, having their lady bits fondled, maybe a tentacle stuck up their private area and maybe their mouth too, dropped into the mouth onto the giant monster's tongue and bounced around, with breasts jiggling and their private area further violated with a giant tongue, clamouring not to be swallowed but ultimately failing, a view of their legs and breasts being squeezed together as they are swallowed, only to be dropped into the stomach. Some comics end it on the woman sitting depressed, humiliated, and defeated in the stomach, with a small stream of stomach acid starting to pour in, leaving the implication that they will be burned and eventually dissolved and digested in the stomach. Then some comics just have it to where the stomach already has a pool of stomach acid in it, and the woman drowns in it (and that last panel will of COURSE make sure the woman's scared face, as well as her breasts, are still just in view as she drowns in the acid).
Even if they don't go that detailed all of the time, I just hate it. I hate that this is "sexy" to people. At least with hard vore, the character is pretty much done quickly, and it generally isn't trying to be sexual at all (I know there are people who still get off to hard vore but they are just completely sick). But with soft vore like this, the character goes through literal rape before being swallowed, and then when they are in the stomach, they are either burned alive for a few seconds, or they sit there and wait as they are slowly burned alive, as an empty stomach fills. And the fact that beautiful female characters are often the targets, and the fact they are often portrayed as helpless regardless of their actual canon abilities and power, just makes it worse. It feels like the fetish literally exists to completely humiliate female characters for the pleasure of white trash men in their basement.
And worse still - this isn't just used for hate against characters. Often times, people making these claim to LOVE these characters. But judging by their comments, they only love them for their bodies and nothing else. If they love your body, they want to see you simultaneously raped and eaten whole.
I think I first developed this repulsion when I saw the "Cell eats Android 18" scene in Dragonball Z when I was a kid. I still hate that scene, I am convinced it was intentionally fetishistic and perverted, meant to appeal the people who like this sort of thing.
I'm sorry but I just really hate it.
For those who don't know the difference, hard vore is literally just straight up the victim being torn up and eaten. It's gory and raw "monster/feral animal eats person/creature". I don't like it either (it's often used for people to express their hate for fictional characters or whatever which just seems petty, especially in fandoms for family friendly characters and their respective universe/show/game/etc), but at the very least, that is merely just violence and gore, and nothing more - I can stomach violence and gore. It's shallow and it honestly isn't that eventful in most cases.
But soft vore entails that the victim is kept in one piece, but (in non-cartoony or humourous contexts), it also generally entails that the victim is digested slowly over time. That's honestly just more depressing.
But what really gets to me about soft vore, in combination with the above, is the fact that it's a popular sexual fetish. So what most non-humourous soft vore imagery/comics end up being about, is a beautiful female character being portrayed as a completely helpless damsel in distress (even if said character is super powerful canonically), picked up by a monster while struggling to get out (usually by tentacles or something sharp, like a claw of a monster), having their clothes ripped off, having their lady bits fondled, maybe a tentacle stuck up their private area and maybe their mouth too, dropped into the mouth onto the giant monster's tongue and bounced around, with breasts jiggling and their private area further violated with a giant tongue, clamouring not to be swallowed but ultimately failing, a view of their legs and breasts being squeezed together as they are swallowed, only to be dropped into the stomach. Some comics end it on the woman sitting depressed, humiliated, and defeated in the stomach, with a small stream of stomach acid starting to pour in, leaving the implication that they will be burned and eventually dissolved and digested in the stomach. Then some comics just have it to where the stomach already has a pool of stomach acid in it, and the woman drowns in it (and that last panel will of COURSE make sure the woman's scared face, as well as her breasts, are still just in view as she drowns in the acid).
Even if they don't go that detailed all of the time, I just hate it. I hate that this is "sexy" to people. At least with hard vore, the character is pretty much done quickly, and it generally isn't trying to be sexual at all (I know there are people who still get off to hard vore but they are just completely sick). But with soft vore like this, the character goes through literal rape before being swallowed, and then when they are in the stomach, they are either burned alive for a few seconds, or they sit there and wait as they are slowly burned alive, as an empty stomach fills. And the fact that beautiful female characters are often the targets, and the fact they are often portrayed as helpless regardless of their actual canon abilities and power, just makes it worse. It feels like the fetish literally exists to completely humiliate female characters for the pleasure of white trash men in their basement.
And worse still - this isn't just used for hate against characters. Often times, people making these claim to LOVE these characters. But judging by their comments, they only love them for their bodies and nothing else. If they love your body, they want to see you simultaneously raped and eaten whole.
I think I first developed this repulsion when I saw the "Cell eats Android 18" scene in Dragonball Z when I was a kid. I still hate that scene, I am convinced it was intentionally fetishistic and perverted, meant to appeal the people who like this sort of thing.
I'm sorry but I just really hate it.
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