Ode to Monster-Fucking, by Jenna Miles (2018, pocket-zine)

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[Text: Ode to Monsterfucking]
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[Image: a drawing of monstrous eyes watching in the dark. Some eyes have narrow pupils. Others are in sets of four or eight.]
[Image: a picture of an online crowd-sourced dictionary definition.]
[Text:
monster fucker
[redacted] people who are sexually and romantically attracted to monsters/inhuman creatures
There are only two types of people monster fuckers and cowards
After watching [reacted] I'm a monster fucker
by [redacted] February 19, 2018
👍 212 | 👎 2]

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[Image: a drawing of barren trees in a dark forest.]
[Text: If two beasts call out in ecstasy
Alone together in the forest
Do they make a sound?]
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[Image: text in an upright triangle.]
[Text: If they call you a beast,]
[Image: text in an inverted triangle.]
[Text: Can you hear it?]
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[Image: a drawing of a pair of eyes with narrow pupils watching in the dark.]
[Text: What is a monster, exactly?]
[Image: a drawing of a hissing cat with the same eyes illuminated in a spotlight.]
[Text: If they call you one, are you?]
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[Image: a drawing of sharp teeth encircling text.]
[Text: They have sharp teeth]
[Image: a drawing of wavering concentric rings encircling text.]
[Text: No teeth]
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[Image: a drawing of four silhouettes: a fat figure; a figure with wings sprouting from its head, shoulders, and thighs; a figure with amputations on one leg and one arm; and a figure with horns and a barbed tail.]
[Text: Bodies unlike those
You have been taught to love]
[Image: a drawing of a ghost.]
[Text: No body, or
The wish for no body]
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[Image: a drawing of several jagged teeth in different shapes and sizes. ]
[Text: New teeth
For tearing apart your enemies]
[Image: a drawing of a hand lifting a shirt to reveal a chest with a mastectomy scar.]
[Text: A new body, just how you like it.]
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[Image: a drawing of two hands reaching to spread apart a vertical slit.]
[Text: Do you want to fuck it?]
[Image: a drawing of a vertical slit with beams of light radiating out of it.]
[Text: Do you want to become it?]
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[Text: What draws us to the superhuman?]
[Image: a drawing of a hand reaching forward, pointing loosely. The letters "SUBHU" have been crossed out of the text above where the word "superhuman" appears.
[Text: Why do we wish for something sharper, stronger rougher, more beautiful?]
[Image: The word "LESS" has been crossed out of the text above where the word "more" appears.]
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[Image: a drawing of a torso with mastectomy scars, arms restrained from behind by grasping dark claws.]
[Text: So beautiful it's terrible
So terrible it's beautiful]
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[Image: a drawing of a graveyard with broken headstones and a single cross beneath shining stars.]
[Text: Life forever, in spite of what they've done
To you
Despite what they still do
To us]
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[Image: a drawing of a fur-covered maned beast in silhouette. She gestures with her arms threateningly.]
[Text: She is terrifying in her power and]
[Image: a drawing of a human body with mastectomy scars pressed close to the fur of the beast, which grips their face.]
[Text: I hunger for a body greater than my own]
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[Image: a drawing of barren trees under a starry sky.]
[Text: So when my beast calls out,]
[Image: a drawing of human fingers grasping the fur of the beast to pull her close.]
[Text: I will hear it.
I will go to her.]
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[Image: a drawing of a dark beast with glowing eyes gripping the head and neck of a serene figure with claws and teeth.]
[Text: Afterwards, her teeth are still around my neck.
I know what she is.
She shows me.
She knows what I am too.
And still, she doesn't bite down.]
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[Text: © Jenna Miles
Self-published in 2021 18/28
jennamilesart www.jennamiles.art]
[Image: a drawing of monstrous eyes watching in the dark.
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