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NO, I MEAN I UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE USED TO ASK ME THIS QUESTION LITERALLY ALL THE FREAKING TIME BACK, YOU KNOW, WHEN THIS WAS ALL JUST A STUPID LITTLE SPECULATIVE SEXUAL FANTASY FOR ME. BEFORE SOME DUMB KAIJU WHORE FUCKING SLAMMED A 6,000-FOOT HIGH PLEASER DEEP INTO THE GAPING HOLE IN THE GROUND WHERE TIMES SQUARE USED TO BE. BEFORE THAT VERY SAME DUMB KAIJU WHORE DECIDED TO JUST CASUALLY STRADDLE THE ENTIRE EAST RIVER SHORELINE, SEVERING THE DECKS OF THE BROOKLYN, MANHATTAN, WILLIAMSBURG, AND QUEENSBORO BRIDGES ALL AT ONCE AS THIS IMPOSSIBLY MASSIVE CONTINENT OF PLIANT, APOCALYPTIC SAPPHIC FLESH DESCENDED UPON THEM. SMOTHERING THE UN HEADQUARTERS BENEATH HER TITS. TEASING THE GLISTENING SILVER TIP OF THE CHRYSLER BUILDING UNTIL IT CRUMBLED AT THE COMMAND OF HER TOUCH. WHY, SPECIFICALLY, NEW YORK CITY? WHAT IS IT ABOUT YOU, NYC, THAT KEEPS BRINGING THIS DUMB HORNY BITCH AND HER INSATIABLE DESIRE FOR EROTIC PLEASURE BACK TO YOU?_________________LOVER. SUBMISSIVE. EROTIC SANDBOX. PATHETIC LITTLE PLAYTHING. THE TOXIC LITTLE IVY-LEAGUE FUCKBOY BILLIONAIRE SOCIOPATH WHO NEVER COULD RESIST A NIGHT IN THE DUNGEON WITH THIS BIG, BAD DOMME WHO QUITE LITERALLY HAS THE POWER TO DESTROY HIM.__________________WELL, WE ALL KNOW WHY. A BILLIONAIRE SOCIOPATH WHO WOULD SLAUGHTER WHAT LITTLE SOUL HE HAD LEFT TO BE MASTER OF THE FUCKING UNIVERSE KNOWS DEEP DOWN THAT TRUE, UNTOUCHABLE, SUBLIME OMNIPOTENCE ISN’T SOMETHING YOU CAN SIMPLY BUY, EVEN WITH ALL THE MONEY AND POWER IN THE WORLD. AND THAT JUST MAKES YOU CRAVE ITS PRESENCE EVEN MORE. CRAVE THE RITUALISTIC ANNIHILATION OF YOUR EGO UNDER THE MERE IMPENDING CARESS OF THE DIVINE. CRAVE THE RITUALISTIC EGO-DEATH OF COMPLETELY, WHOLEHEARTEDLY, SUBMITTING TO THE WHIMS OF A REAL GODDESS.____________A GODDESS WHO ISN’T BOUND BY HUMAN HIERARCHIES OF POWER OR THE LAWS OF PHYSICS. A GODDESS FOR WHOSE LUCKY LITTLE SUMBISSIVES ECSTASY AND EXTINCTION ARE ONE AND THE SAME. A GODDESS WHO COULD NEVER BE CONSTRAINED BY THE IMMUTABLE LIMITATIONS OF SOME MEGALOMANIAC MORTAL MAN’S BODY, OR OF THESE THICK, PHALLIC MONUMENTS TO HIS OWN LARGESSE SCATTERED BENEATH HER.______________YOU THINK THIS IS AS BIG AS I CAN GET? OH, GOD, YOU’RE CUTE. LOOK. LISTEN TO ME, I COULD CHOOSE TO BE ANY SIZE I WANT TO BE RIGHT NOW. IF I’D REALLY WANTED, I COULD HAVE MADE MYSELF LARGE ENOUGH TO SMOTHER THE WHOLE OF AMERICA BENEATH PARABOLIC MOUNTAINS AND ASPHYXIATING FOLDS OF DISOBEDIENT DEVIL-DYKE FLESH. I COULD HAVE MADE MYSELF BIG ENOUGH TO LICK ALL EIGHT BILLION OF YOU, AND ALL YOUR TINY LITTLE DUST-SPECK CITIES, OFF THE FACE OF MY SWEET LITTLE LOLLIPOP PLANET LIKE YOU WERE NOTHING MORE THAN SUGARY SPRINKLES_________OR MAYBE I COULD HAVE GROWN SO VAST THAT EARTH ITSELF WOULDN’T EVEN MAKE AN IMPRESSION ON MY RETINAS ANYMORE. LESS A PALE BLUE DOT, TO BORROW A PHRASE FROM ONE OF THE FEW MORTAL MEN TO HAVE EVER TRULY UNDERSTOOD THE FOLLY OF ELITE HUMANITY’S STUPID FUCKING QUEST FOR DOMINANCE, STATUS, CONTROL____________A PALE BLUE SUBATOMIC SPECK A MILLIONTH THE BREADTH OF A SINGLE EMERALD FILAMENT ON THE IRIS OF A NAKED EYE, BELONGING TO A NAKED SLUT DRIZZLING A SEARING HOT NEBULA ACROSS HER CHEEKS, HER NECK, HER BREASTS LIKE CANDLE-WAX, FEEDING ENTIRE GALAXIES, BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS OF STELLAR SYSTEMS, TO HER BLACK-HOLE CUNT ON THE TIPS OF HER FINGERS AS SHE MASTURBATED, EVERY SINGLE NERVE ENDING JOLTED BY THE LIGHTNING-BOLT BLISS OF A MILLION SUPERNOVAE EXPLODING ALL OVER HER DIVINE CLITORIS AT ONCE._____AND HONESTLY, LIKE, INTERGALACTIC ORGASMS MAKE YOU FEEL SO FUCKING SEXY AND POWERFUL LIKE YOU WOULDN’T EVEN BELIEVE, BUT, YOU KNOW_____________I MEAN, FUCKING MANHATTAN IS FUCKING THE PATRIARCHY. IT’S FUCKING CAPITALISM. IN THE MOST LITERAL SENSE. AND WHAT KINDA SELF-RESPECTING RADICAL DOOMSDAY DYKE DOMINATRIX WOULDN’T WANNA DO THAT?___________NEW YORK CITY IS, AT ITS CORE, A MAGNIFICENTLY SEXY SYNECDOCHE FOR ALL THESE INTERSECTING STRUCTURES OF POWER AND OPPRESSION IMPOSED UPON HUMANITY BY PATRIARCHY, BY CAPITALISM, BY WHITE SUPREMACY, BY QUEERPHOBIA. YOU COULD NOT ASK FOR A BETTER METAPHOR FOR THE STRATIFICATION OF HUMAN SOCIETY UNDER ALL THESE FUCKED-UP SYSTEMS THAN THE ISLAND OF MANHATTAN, AND IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME, THE METAPHOR’S SO DEEPLY INGRAINED IT’S LITERALLY ETCHED INTO ITS FUCKING GEOGRAPHY._______I MEAN, HAVE YOU EVER LOOKED AT NEW YORK CITY FROM ABOVE?___________FROM THE PUBIC BRONX TO THE TENDER TIP OF BATTERY PARK, MANHATTAN ISLAND IS LITERALLY SEVEN MILES OF THICK, VEINY, ROCK-HARD GRANITE COCK SHAFT PENETRATING THIS SOAKING WET GEOLOGICAL PUSSY LUBRICATED BY THE GUSHING WATERS OF THE HUDSON AND EAST RIVERS. JACKHAMMERING THAT PUSSY INTO SUBMISSION BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, HE’S A VIOLENT FUCKER. MISTER BIG SHOT, J.P. MORGAN, JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, DONALD JOHN TRUMP, MANHATTAN ISLAND. BUT HE’S NOTHING THAT A SIZE-SHIFTING GIANTESS DEITY CAN’T PUT IN HIS PLACE._________________ WELL, HONESTLY, I THINK THAT’S WHY I KEEP COMING BACK TO YOU. YOU ARE JUST SUCH A WEIRDLY________________EROGENOUS REPRESENTATION OF EVERYTHING I HATE, AND EVERYTHING I MOST YEARN TO DESTROY. THE TOPOGRPHY OF THIS ISLAND. THE FEEL OF ITS THOUSANDS OF SKYSCRAPING SPIRES, ITS STRATA, ITS BUMPS AND RIDGES AND LAYERS BENEATH MY FINGERTIPS, BENEATH MY FEET, MY ASS, MY TITS. BENEATH THIS TITANIC ELDRITCH SLIT SLASHED BETWEEN MY THICK FUCKING THIGHS. THIS VOLCANIC, BLOOD-SOAKED, HELLMOUTH CUNT RED GRINDING THE MAJESTIC SHAFT OF A METROPOLITAN SEX TOY PERFECTLY TEXTURED FOR HER PLEASURE, DEVOURING THOSE TANTALISING CANYONS OF LATE CAPITALISM: PARK, MADISON, FIFTH, SIXTH, AND THE REST. SWEET, STICKY INFERNO OOZING THROUGH THEIR BURNING REMNANTS. ERUPTIONS OF PYROCLASTIC EJACULATE RAINING DOWN UPON THE CONFLAGRATING EMBERS OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE, SCORCHING THE EARTH OF SO MUCH EVIL, AND INJUSTICE, AND INFERNAL, PLUTOCRATIC, PATRIARCHAL FLESH. OH, GOD, NEW YORK, COULD ANY PLACE ON EARTH HAVE BEEN MORE PERFECTLY TAILORED TO GET A GIANT GODDESS OFF THAN YOU?_______AND EVEN THOUGH SADISTICALLY FUCKING YOU OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH IN THE NAME OF REVOLUTIONARY QUEER, FEMINIST PLEASURE-PRAXIS IS SUCH A MASSIVE POWER FANTASY FOR ME, I CAN’T DENY THERE’S A PART OF ME THAT’D MISS YOU ONCE YOU WERE GONE._______I GUESS THAT’S THE BEAUTY OF THE EROTIC IMAGINATION. THE IMPERMANENCE OF FANTASY. GETTING TO EXPERIENCE THE SHEER, ORGASMIC CATHARSIS OF A CONSENSUALLY INFLICTED VENGEANCE AGAINST AN AMERICAN EMPIRE WHOSE WORST EXCESSES YOU REPRESENT SO PERFECTLY, WITH NONE OF THE CONSEQUENCES. KNOWING YOU WANTED IT AS BAD AS I DID._______________IN MY DREAMS I COULD BE AS DEPRAVED AS I WANTED TO BE. I COULD BAD-END YOU EVERY SINGLE FUCKING NIGHT, AND KNOW THAT YOU’D BE BACK FOR MORE TOMORROW. UNHARMED. UNSCATHED. WAITING FOR ME IN THE DUNGEON OF MY FANTASIES. THE FANTASIES OF A MORTAL LITTLE MAD DYKE BITCH ADDICTED TO THE ULTIMATE SEXUAL SIMULACRUM OF POWER AND CONTROL. YEARNING FOR ME TO DESTROY YOU ALL OVER AGAIN.___________BUT THEN THERE’S A PART OF ME THAT WOULDN’T MISS YOU AT ALL.__________________ARE WE READY TO TALK PORNOECOMONIC THEORY? BECAUSE I THINK WE MIGHT BE READY TO TALK PORNOECONOMIC THEORY, MOTHERFUCKERS.____________FIFTY YEARS AGO, THE FEMINIST SCHOLAR DOLORES HAYDEN WROTE THAT THE SKYSCRAPERS OF MANHATTAN, MEGALITHIC MAN-MADE MONUMENTS TO THE PULSATING MASCULINISED POWER OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM, WERE VIOLENT IMPOSITIONS UPON THIS ISLAND WHOSE PREHISTORIC HILLS HAD LONG SINCE BEEN FLATTENED SO THAT THE CITY COULD COMFORTABLY COLONISE IT. UPON AN ISLAND WHERE LADY LIBERTY’S POOR, TIRED MASSES -- FOREIGNERS, OUTSIDERS, QUEERS -- LAY HUDDLED IN THEIR TENEMENTS AND DERELICT WAREHOUSES WHILE UP ROSE THE EMPIRE STATE. UP ROSE THE CHRYSLER BUILDING AND THE ROCKEFELLER CENTER. UP ROSE THE WORLD TRADE CENTER OVER THE SLUMS OF RADIO ROW: MINORU YAMASAKI’S DOWNTOWN TWIN-TOWER DOUBLE-PENETRATION FUCKING THE LOWER WEST SIDE WITHOUT REMORSE. AND STILL IT GOES ON. THE ONWARD LOCKSTEP MARCH OF PATRIARCHY AND CAPITALISM, HAND-IN-HAND.________HUDSON YARDS. BILLIONAIRES’ ROW. HUNDREDS OF SEDUCTIVE PHALLIC ANALOGUES IN STONE AND STEEL AND GLASS SWELLING, STIFF AND FIRM AND POWERFUL, TOWARD AN ALLURING, NAKED, SIREN SKY THE MASTERS OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM WHO ERECTED THEM ARE CERTAIN IS JUST BEGGING, LIKE A PORNSTAR RIPPED RIGHT OUT OF SOME CHEAP PIECE OF BRAINLESS CIS-HETERONORMATIVE MALE FANTASY SLOP, FOR EACH OF THEIR MAGNUM MONOLITHS TO THRUST INSIDE HER AND FUCK HER HARD. HUNDREDS OF BIG, MUSCULAR, MEGALITHIC THOUSAND-FOOT HORSE-COCKS ERECTED TO PROCLAIM THE ECONOMIC MIGHT OF THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL MEN. ERECTED TO SEDUCE, PENETRATE, AND DOMINATE A CITY GAGGING TO BE INSEMINATED WITH FAT, CREAMY LITERAL MONEY-SHOTS WHETHER ITS PEOPLE WANTED IT OR NOT.________________SKYSCRAPER SEDUCTION. SKYSCRAPER RAPE. SYMBOLS OF EGO, AND POWER, AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROWESS DOING NOTHING BUT DEPLETING THE CITY’S ENERGY RESOURCES AND STRAINING ITS INFRASTRUCTURE TO WITHIN AN INCH OF ITS LIFE._____________THE BIGGER THE COCK, THE MORE BLOOD YOU HAVE TO DRAIN FROM THE BODY SUSTAINING IT TO KEEP IT ERECT: LABOR, ENERGY, TAX DOLLARS IN CONSTRUCTION SUBSIDIES FROM BIG CITY OFFICIALS WHO LOVE SLURPING PLUTOCRATIC DICK FOR THE PROMISE OF A CASUAL LITTLE KICKBACK: WHAT’S A BIG CITY MAYOR THAN A SUGAR BABY WITH A FANCY TITLE, REALLY?_________AND WHAT DO THE PEOPLE DOWN THERE GET OUT OF THIS WHOLE DEAL OTHER THAN FUCKED? OTHER THAN HAVING TO BEND OVER AND TAKE A LOWER QUALITY OF LIFE, LOWER WAGES, SHITTIER HOUSING AND PUBLIC SERVICES, ALL BECAUSE SOME BILLIONAIRE ASSHOLES WANTED TO ASSERT THEIR PORNOECONOMIC DOMINANCE OVER ALL THE OTHER BILLIONAIRE ASSHOLES IN THIS TOWN, ERECT THE BIGGEST, STRONGEST, HARDEST FUCKING DICK IN TOWN, AND FUCK ALL THE LITTLE GUYS DOWN BELOW RIGHT IN THE ASS._________________BECAUSE WHEN YOU’RE A WEALTHY MOTHERFUCKER WHO CLEARLY WON CAPITALISM A LONG FUCKING TIME AGO, WHO’S SPENT THE LAST FORTY-SOME YEARS SINCE REAGAN TOOK THE WHITE HOUSE JUST RUNNING UP THE SCORE, IT’S PROBABLY A LOT COOLER TO SIT BACK AND WATCH THE NUMBERS GO UP WHEN YOU’RE FIFTEEN HUNDRED FEET ABOVE FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET. SO HIGH UP YOU CAN’T EVEN MAKE OUT THE LAST FEW POOR NEIGHBORHOODS LEFT TO CHOKE OFF THIS ISLAND SHRINE TO ALMIGHTY MAMMON. SO HIGH UP THAT ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES YOUR GREED, YOUR LUST FOR POWER, HAD FUCKED SO HARD AT EVERY POSSIBLE TURN, LOOK LIKE BACTERIA IN A FUCKING PETRI DISH: NOTHING YOU WOULD EVER EVEN NOTICE YOUR ACTIONS HAD KILLED, HOWEVER PURPOSEFULLY.________AND NOTHING COULD EVER TOUCH YOU UP THERE ON TOP OF THE FUCKING WORLD. UNTIL TONIGHT. UNTIL THIS BITCH STOOD ASTRIDE THIS ISLAND, STARED DOWN THOSE PATHETIC LITTLE WANNABE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE LOUNGING IN THEIR BOARDROOMS AND PENTHOUSES AT THE VERY COCK-TIPS OF THEIR MICRO-DICK SKYSCRAPERS, UNTIL THE SIGHT OF TRUE SUBLIME DOMINION HAD DRAINED THEIR TREMBLING BODIES OF ALL THAT PRECIOUS PRECIOUS EGO, AND THEN, WITH A WICKED LITTLE SMIRK AND A SINGLE SHARP STOMP, SHE PUT THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD ON NOTICE.________________THE NERVE CENTER OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM IS GOING FUCKING DOWN IN A BLAZE OF GIANT GODDESS PLEASURE TONIGHT, AND IT’S GONNA FEEL SO FUCKING GOOD._______THE REVOLUTION WILL BE PORNOGRAPHIC. THE REVOLUTION IS COMING. THE PORNOECONOMIC CRASH IS COMING IN HER BIG RED DICK-DESTROYING BOOTS AND YOU BETTER BELIEVE SHE’S GONNA COME SO HARD SHE’S GONNA DROWN THIS WHOLE FUCKING CITY.