A thread for sharing 'female gaze'-esque shotacon art, both eastern and western, very often-wise drawn by (suspected) female artists. Share any you know as I'd love to build my collection! Discussion of the female shotacon experience is also encouraged alongside image posting.
I have nothing against the (gay) males of this board. I'm just interested in seeing more art and artists in this very specific genre, plus hearing what others have to say from personal anecdotes.
I find nowadays there's a lot more hen-picking in more fandom-y spaces over the topic of shotacon. Many spots, forums or IBs made for other women to use look down heavily on the subject. Which is sad, because I find that men are generally a lot more agnostic towards it and lolicon.
>>4041888 *henpecking ...is probably the actual way you say that lol.
Anyway, the funniest thing I've ever seen come out that was one woman calling for a genocide against all autistic people in order to stop shotacons from existing.
South Park definitely has some of the biggest, long-running collection of shotacons ever, and understandably so. I've have yet to see it in its entirety but a lot of episodes, characters and story beats just scratch my brain in such a good way. Plus it's very funny.
>>4041884(OP) What is "female gaze-esque" about any of the art posted here? Maybe post something that's more male gaze so you can help us understand? It feels like you just wanted to create another /co/ thread in all honesty.
>>4041906 They're made by women and follow a similar pattern of art trends, niches and/or adhere to shipping culture prominent in those spaces. I do believe in a difference in how men and women express shota love, especially in art, and I don't see one as being superior to the other. I just wish to see more examples.
>It feels like you just wanted to create another /co/ thread in all honesty. I mostly just have cartoon stuff out of preference, and it's the most overt example of what I'm talking about too. Black Butler I know is possibly the most famous eastern case of what I mean, and it definitely shows in its style and writing.
>>4041906 I think some things that I see commonly that are most recognizable as being "male gaze" are body part hyper-ism, smell and underwear fetishism, focus on the male buttocks and anus, interest in "full-time" otokonoko characters such as Astolfo, Bridgette or Hideri, and general sex play most popular with gay men as a whole (jockstraps, pupmasks, poppers, etc). I hope I'm making some sense here.
The huffy, bratty, near tsundere-like is the most female-bait shota archetype to ever exist, I swear. It's why characters like Max, and more recently Abaddon became so popular.