#censor that

[nuclearmaple]

The Eroticism of the Armpit and the Touhou Fandom:

A (Very Serious) Psychoanalysis

(Warning: Light mature topic, sleep depravity writing, jokepost)

Deep within the Touhou fandom lies an erotic fixation on the fictional 2D characters' armpits. To investigate the inner depths of this fetish and deconstructing this meme into the minds of the view who indulges in this depravity. Underneath this perversion of Reimu, we can explain the deeper meaning behind such a fetish.

I. Fandom's Symptom

While the fetishization of the armpit goes far back before the Touhou fandom and can be found in other media, it has created a home in this specific community. The meme is often shown humorously because how absurd the concept is, but once a joke infects the mind to actually enjoy the perversion of the armpit.

II. Nature of the Fetish

The armpit is neither fully erotic or fully innocent. It is distant to anything in conversational intercourse, yet close to the Real, Lacan terms for the impossible in language, being odor, hair, and sweat. Desire of the armpit can be trance to it being hidden. A fantasy is built around the armpit while avoiding anything truly pure sexual.

Fetish of the armpit plays as the object petit a, desire coming from symbolization. In another way of looking at is as a phallus, a wish to have in the sexual life of the man (or a woman or others).

III. The Imagination and 2D

The world of Gensokyo is one of fiction and two-dimensional art built on the creator and fandom's imagination. The nature of leaving the real world and the general more skill it takes to make 3D models, it being 2D allows easy access for the brain to go wild and make content. While a real person has normal sense of what about them is beautiful, the 2D anime woman can have features elevated.

Removing the objections of real people makes the objector more easy on the mind. The elevation of insufficient parts of the body the 2D world brings is the origin of the armpit fetish in Touhou and can also link to others like thighs. An artist or the mind can create an image of a detailed armpit to their liking; a reflection of their selves. In a way, the ideal ego and libidinal in the fandom.

This is all in contrast to the media's light tones. Lack of sexuality in the games or manga.

IV. Armpit Miko

Anyone who sneaks a look into the Touhou community will be familiar with the protagonist Reimu Hakurei. First looking at her, you will notice her shrine maiden out, her sleeveless top, detached sleeves, and exposed armpits. The detached sleeves and her top create a gap to be filled in with one's desire.

How come this not fully innocent nor fully sexual way of erotic projection? Reimu has a character is not a seducer, sexual, and as a clear mission in her games. Because of this lack of serialization, it becomes easier to put this partial drive onto her. Her role in the series allows her to become a vessel of the player, a symbol of the fan's desires.

The armpit miko meme as become a pathway for the Touhou fan. a sacred thing they most be exposed to, and may either accept or decline it in one's life. Touhou is a game full of sacred Japanese imagery and Reimu's sacred role.

V. Asexuality and Just a Meme

As an aroace person, it easy to not subscribe to Freud and Lacan theories. But I argue that there is still desire in asexual and aromantic people deep in, just very differently than allo people. This is basically a sleep deprived rant using books I read before to apply to a funny idea I had.

What makes the psychoanalyzing of this inside joke in the fandom interesting is the absurdity of taking time to write this or read this. The same reason why there is deeper meaning in the joke, the hidden meaning of the absurdity.

VI. Conclusion

In all the absurdity of the armpit joke (and this post), its a way of the Touhou fandom to connect with desire. The Real in motion is by creating jokes to indulge in. Absurd libido is symbolized in the armpits, that is where the Touhou fan finds theirs.

:Troll: You read this, you just got Gnome :Troll:

None of this is any stance of philosophy or psychoanalysis, this is a joke.

[hawkeabelas]

you're allowed to say "sex" on the internet. See? I just did it. Sex. Sex sex sex. You don't have to say s*x or smex or Adult Fun Times or s3x or "spice" any other variation of self-censorship on tumblr dot com you can just spell out the word SEX i am going to scream until the heat death of the universe

[abyssaldyke]

It seems like the older I get, the more irrationally angry casual censorship makes me. And it isn't just the "unalive" "grape" alleged filter-dodging vernacular, but the way normal words will be peppered with asterisks, or screenshots will have words like "gay" "hell" "fuck" etc either partially or entirely blurred. Who is this helping? What is the purpose of it, except to reinforce shame and elevate a flimsy perception of purity and safety, however those things manifest. It's so tiresome and I'm sick of it.

[teaboot]

Once when I was a kid my dad told me to “stop being a you-know-what”. And we’d done the whole song and dance enough times that I knew he meant “bitch”, so I told him: That’s cheating. You know what you mean, and I know what you mean- you’re just stepping around it so you can pretend you’re on the high ground. So if you’re going to call me a bitch, at least have the balls to actually say it.

And it’s been about fifteen years since then but I’m just now figuring out that that’s the same feeling I get hearing shit like “grape” and “unalive”.

If your audience knows what you mean, you might as well actually say it. Otherwise you’re just fucking hiding

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[mcnostril]

The previous post got me to try my hand at some Science®. Please note this knowledge applies only to the Bluesky censor-bot, your robot's arousal level may vary.

So, the following very scientific picture was auto-tagged as "Non-sexual Nudity":

This second experiment was also picked up by the purity-bot:

While I theorized that perhaps it was the raunchy rectangles that were being flagged, this proved to be incorrect as the next tests was negative:

My suspicion that the robot was looking for Vagina Bones also turned out to be erroneous:

However! When knees were re-introduced into the test, suddenly, the machine manifested and tagged the image as Non-sexual Nudity once more:

A workable theory began to take form, as censoring the knees did not wake the nudist-huntbot, suggesting that perhaps its nakedness sensor may be patella-based:

In further testing this theory I realized I'd unknowingly introduced too many variables (the previous test had sparkles! Sparkles!):

This came up negative, but I cannot be certain as to why. At this point it was clear my scientific method was lacking and I do not have the chops/patience for true evidence-based sciencing.

Before abandoning this study that would most certainly not pass peer-review, I conducted one final test:

Yes, it appears drawings with the evil hand do not trigger the abstinent algorithm. I believe artwork will be safe from automated suppression as long as only the evil hand is involved, though more rigorous testing is needed to be absolutely sure.

Anyway science is hard and robots are basically all science, even the ones who do nothing but look for potential nipples, so we should fear their inscrutable ways because you never know what other body parts they may take scientific offense to.

[despazito]

Adult website and period tracker

[frogwhomp]

two friends hanging out

[birdmenmanga]

they are putting yaoi in the city art museum and censoring nsfw content with heat-responsive material so you have to put your hands on it to see dick

[luciiferous]

heavenly machinery

there's nothing explicit under the censors but you can see the full version on [bluesky]

[maezanilla]

bday gift for a fellow sevika enjoyer friend 💜

[redstonedust]

kendrick lamar IS the worlds number one hater and i will not detract from that but it is kind of wild looking up his performance and only seeing "he dissed drake at the superbowl!!" like yeah true but he also dropped "40 acres and a mule this is bigger than the music" at the superbowl. the entire uncle sam bit. i feel like you could do an hour long essay on the imagery in this halftime show alone. insane.

[daftpatience]

im looking thru my old utdr arts from like 4years ago and theres some really funny shit in here. idr if ive posted but we are reviving it here now

i might revisit some of these as redraws or something theyre cute nd funnay

[neighborhoodjewishaunt]

[qvert]

Okay let’s try this again