Try a metaphorical reading!

Naked, giant ladies eating people alive without a hint of remorse, concerned solely with their own enjoyment. Sudden shifts that displace people from their livelihoods, randomly shunting them to a realm where all they knew means nothing, but which may awaken a side of them they never even knew about. Badasses with abilities which hint at the inexistence of each other. Magic, technology, psychic powers... lands and creatures outlandish, so much that it tortures the mind. Eternal youthful vigor without ever so much as a care for disease. Also, lesbians.

Doesn't this stuff ever strike you as kinda freudian?


Now, I'm not going to psychoanalyze Felarya. That'd be up to my older sister, and she'd have to charge us- unfortunately, I don't have any money. So instead, I just suggest we go nuts with the imagery we have so far, and count the meanings we can give this weirdness.

NOTE: THIS IS ALL FOR SILLY GIGGLES (and to make conversation, guys. No extra credit here)




Personally, I could insist that the naked "monsters" express an appeal to fear of inadequacy: clothes make us who we are. The predators, unfettered by all our learned habits, simply are too large for our clothes to hold any meaning to them. They make us look funny, that's all, and ultimately garner little reaction from the predators, who react to us with infuriating, humiliating callousness, ending us and everything we are.

You can also read the eternal youth and lack of sickness as an expression of vanity, of the desire to die rather than be old, an escapist fantasy if you please. Yet at the same time, the eternal youth spares no one from gruesome deaths: it doesn't matter if you live to be a thousand, you're still going to die horribly. It could be read as an expression of the fear of dying young without ever accomplishing anything or even realizing there was something to accomplish, stemming from an abrupt exposition into the job market after a rather coddled childhood.

We could try to make a communist metaphor from the same thing, of course, and express the predatorial oppression of the stronger, who are in a better position to benefit from the yields of the land, including eternal youth and lack of sickness, exerting their power and 'oppressing' those smaller than them, without any regards for their sanity or feelings, even when they are aware beings too. So... you could consider Felarya to be a matriarchal metaphor for capitalism as seen from a Marxist perspective.



It's your turn now. Come on, this stuff's srsly hilarious.

Well I've been in the belief that any story is freudian in nature, narratives is the way how humans express their thoughts, even if you arn't meaning to leave anything meaningful in a story, something from your mind is bound to make it's way in there. When I write my stuff, I think alot about what I am exposing about myself.

Like in Felarya, I greatly identified with the femdom aspect. So my character Winona Galen was purposely created for this, I am very aware that her occupation for manlipuating and trapping things (pred or prey) stems from an domination fetish. I think this might come from my disidentification of dominate male characterstics, I am not a alpha male, and I think there are two kinds of people like me. One is a male that liks to fantasize he is a alpha male (indicated when their main character is an overpowered 'Goku' like character, or someone with an occupation of something considered male in nature, like soilders and such) And then there's the ones like me who stray away from that and rather express their more feminine aspects instead because those characterstics seem more acheiveable to me than being a big hulky guy, hence my characters Winona Galen or Saskia who win over their more stronger opponents. Rather than have a character who wins using powers and strength that I coulden't hope to acheive in my own life. I rather write characters who overcome problems using wit and a keen sense how other people think. Even if it's exaggerated, it's still an fantasy I can take something from and feel good about my position as a male.

And I think this applies to many other felarya stories as well.

Stabs wrote:

stemming from an abrupt exposition into the job market after a rather coddled childhood.

O.o This is my life.

I have wondered about the attraction to gaints, which obviously plays a big part of Felarya. While female gaints do play heavily into the dominance and submission fetishies, I do wonder about stories where those tropes arn't present, such as stories that were purely about the romatic reltationship between the gaint and the smaller character.

It's more commonly believed that males are attracted to shorter women, but it could be possible that some men are condictioned to larger women, not as in fat, but just bigger in stature. the gaintess fetish therefore could also be a desire for a female that is larger than the male, simply exaggerated to it's most extreme.

There could be many reasons for this, a larger female is more likely to survive and therefore would be an ideal mother for the male's young, and could help produce larger and stronger children. Or it could be because the male's mother was tall to begin with, a male often patterns what he looks for in a mate on his mother was like. If the mother was taller than the father, then the child might also desire a taller female (unless the relationship between the mother and son was negative, resulting in the opporsite effect)

if this doesn't sound like a metaphorical analysis or if it doesn't make any sense, this is why I never went to a philosophy class, or stayed awake for Psychology


While I have mostly male characters, I still have a love for the main females here. I guess it's because of my sex drive and the fact that I am straight, that and the fact that it thrives on the one fetish that I have had since I literally was a little child, and my point of focus of the post known as vore.

Vore is the first fetish everyone is introduced to when you think about it, for me it was the story of Jonah and the Great Fish in Sunday School while I was a little kid that activated at least the fascination of vore itself, and I actually learned more about it when I was home alone surfing the internet trying to find what the inside of whale stomachs actually looked like (still can't find real life photos T.T ). For some reason, you don't see very good things in anatomy books either and Felarya, despite the naked women that took some getting used to for me, brought that internal look of a human like stomach. I guess it's the fascination of what happens when humans are at the bottom of the food chain instead of the top like we're all used to that brings out this particular fetish. When you throw out the digestion part that vore is mainly known for, the predator's stomach can actually be the safest place to hide, rest, or do other various tasks for the prey, like how the womb of a mother is the safest place for a human child before he/she is born, in fact, it's kind of like going back in the womb for some people. While there are some types of vore that I personally wish would just disappear forever (I.E. entry points that is not the mouth, the butt in particular XP ), and then there is the type that I never really cared for but I still think is should stay (I.E. absorption), vore does bring out the weird side of me that pretty much nothing else (except for sweet giantess/tiny boy love...and in some cases, boobs) will, at all.



but, that's just my metaphorical theory (at least I think it is), what you think is up to you