X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fmulti-product-review-various-agp-erotic-aids.md;h=27601d942badc897c19462483f5d12df11f91de9;hb=7b5a93a2d5af2049823f8ab1e8112e87d1d23b80;hp=6c2b02323c6e8ee8b93169b948df99e99defc522;hpb=4d517cf3f2ce3ee08e0459cbc5dc278f0a55b63b;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/multi-product-review-various-agp-erotic-aids.md b/content/drafts/multi-product-review-various-agp-erotic-aids.md index 6c2b023..27601d9 100644 --- a/content/drafts/multi-product-review-various-agp-erotic-aids.md +++ b/content/drafts/multi-product-review-various-agp-erotic-aids.md @@ -4,39 +4,87 @@ Category: commentary Tags: autogynephilia, review (product) Status: draft -Our civilization can do a lot of cool things with silicon +This is a chemistry fanblog now! I've decided that my favorite chemical element is [silicon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon). Atomic number 14, like the fourth [Catalan number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_number). Forms _four_ covalent bonds at once. Did you know some scientists believe that there may be [silicon-based life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry#Silicon_biochemistry) somewhere in the universe? -### Gold Seal NAKED Silicone Bodysuit +And used in making so many beautiful things ...! The [microchips](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit) on which our electronic Society is built, obviously, but [silicone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicone) polymers also have a wide range of applications in industrial and consumer products. + +Today, I'd like to talk about some ... _consumer_ products. + +Except—this isn't actually a chemistry fanblog. If you'd rather avoid discussion of certain _consumer products_, you might want to stop reading and close the tab now. + +[TODO: better intro/transition] + +### [Gold Seal NAKED Silicone Bodysuit](https://thebreastformstore.com/gold-seal-naked-silicone-bodysuit/) + + + +[One of the disappointing things about breastforms is that they're noticeably—not actually part of your body.](/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/#first-breastforms) There is an _edge_ between the form and your actual chest. + +In contrast, this bodysuit featuring fake breasts _and_ a fake vulva, all in one piece, seemed like an appealing thing to try out. Compared to breastforms, the bodysuit promised to offer a "bottom" experience, and, not a more _seamless_ transformation on "top", but rather to put the seams in a potentially less conspicuous location (at the neck/arms/legs, rather than on the chest where they interfere with the illusion of actually having breasts). + +It only comes in one size, but according to the sizing chart, I ought to fit given my 37½″ underbust measurement. + +... it did not fit. I did _substantial_ damage to the suit just struggling to get it on: ripping a huge tear in the back to the left hip, _and_ + +(In retrospect, I should have taken care to heed the direction to apply talcum powder to my skin and the inside of the suit, before stuggling so much.) * I could not get this on, at all: huge rip on the back side, and the zipper came off; the former seems unambiguously like "my fault", but the zipper actually seems like low-quality product? - * breasts hang too low, but that could be due to broken zipper + * should've listened to the baby powder direction before trying to squeeze it on + + + + +The breasts hang significantly too low—but + + * hard to fit member in urination option, I swear it leaked urine out side?—not sure how the hydraulics worked there - * customer service was very nice and helpful, offered glue for zipper + + * cleavage is nice - * should've listened to the baby powder direction before trying to squeeze it on - * purple fake rose petals in box are a nice touch - * overall effect I would describe as cartoony + * also: can't masturbate with the bottom on! + +I would describe the overall effect as "cartoony." + +Customer service was very nice and helpful when I wrote to them about my experience. + +The product page had already warned that all sales of this item were final (would _you_ want to buy one of these used?) + + + * customer service was very nice and helpful, offered glue for zipper (I assume they don't hire actual women for those jobs) + * I ended up cutting it in half to try to wear the pieces separately, but the cut was a little too below waist for the now-"shorts" + +(The fake purple rose petals in the box were a nice touch.) + * I like the idea, but overall, do not recommend -https://thebreastformstore.com/gold-seal-naked-silicone-bodysuit/ -Cost: $600 -Rating: ★½ +**Cost:** $600 +**Rating:** ★½ + +### [Crea FX Taylor Silicone Mask](https://www.creafx.com/en/special-make-up-effects/taylor-silicone-mask/) + +
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+ +It really looks like a woman's face! + +The skin color and texture is much more realistic than the cartoon beige of the Gold Seal bodysuit reviewed above. + +(I wonder how much it helps that Crea FX are visual-effects artists by trade—makers of male masks and monster masks for movies and plays—rather than being in the MtF business specifically like the Breast Form Store. They know—I assume they _must_ know—that a lot of their female masks are purchased by guys like me, + -### Crea FX Taylor Silicone Mask - * really good; it actually looks like a woman's face!! * somehow looks worse in photographs than it does in the mirror?] * worst nonrealism: visible eyeholes; fix—sunglasses? * going to reprise Ens.-Sylvia-Tilly-wearing-sunglasses at Fan Expo 2022 to see if I can pass at all * Is it possible that I stretched out the nose area?? * standing a distance from the mirror in a dark hotel room, I actually bought it?! - -https://www.creafx.com/en/special-make-up-effects/taylor-silicone-mask/ - -Cost: €672 -Rating: ★★★★½ + +**Cost:** €672 +**Rating:** ★★★★½ ### GPT-3 @@ -48,26 +96,28 @@ Rating: ★★★★½ stock phrase "Mark had always been fascinated by women. He loved the way they looked, the way they smelled, the way they sounded" -Cost: -Rating: ★★★ +**Cost:** +**Rating:** ★★★ ### Xpression Camera * it's limited in the sense of noticeably not being a magic mirror (that key fraction of a second behind real time, pixelly, it's just doing basic eye-mouth tracking, so expressions are limited in that sense, distortion if you tilt your head too much), but it gets _close enough_ to being a magic mirror to be really exciting: I blink, the woman on the screen blinks; I open my mouth, she opens her mouth. Amazing!! * I haven't actually tried this on a video call yet (any readers interested in a call?) -Cost: -Rating: ★★½ +**Cost:** +**Rating:** ★★½ ### Stable Diffusion + + * For some reason, I really love celebrity prompts! (Where "individual people whose faces I recognize" is the actual thing, but celebrities are the way to realize that) * Yeah, you can already see lots of pictures of celebrities online * still in the distorted uncanny-valley regime, most of the time * img2img for pose customization!! -Cost: -Rating: ★★★½ +**Cost:** +**Rating:** ★★★½ It's weirdly better at depicting America Ferrera https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/images?_search=oprah&_sort=rowid Oprah @@ -79,7 +129,9 @@ https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/images?_search=Nana+Vi ### Takeaways -Why write about this? Why write about icky erotic stuff on a blog that also has Science and Philosophy stuff that's safe for work? Well, in the current year I think there's actually a public interest in being clear that—if I'm the kind of person who becomes a trans women in Berkeley, which no one seems to dispute—this is the kind of thing people like me spend a lot of time on. And—it just, doesn't really seem like something actual-females would relate to +Why write about this? Why write about icky erotic stuff on a blog that also has Science and Philosophy stuff that's _unambiguously_ safe for work? Well, in the current year I think there's actually a public interest in being clear that—if I'm the kind of person who becomes a trans women in Berkeley, which no one seems to dispute—this is the kind of thing people like me spend a lot of time on. And—it just, doesn't really seem like something actual-females would relate to * I didn't masturbate from Sat. until Wed. in anticipation of trying on the mask in a hotel room; I was delighted that I came a little bit (entirely flaccid) while shitting—that's a sign that I had succeeded in building up, and yet somehow I didn't feel very horny or get as much pleasure when the time came? Maybe I'm getting old? - \ No newline at end of file + + +"The most jiggle and bounce imaginable" \ No newline at end of file