Hats off to you people who manage to power through all her fic's, I couldn't do it unless there was a paycheck involved.
I think I've read a grand total of one of Lily's short stories, a few chapters from TSR, and a few shorts on her Tumblr blog, with the madhouse comic being the only I bother to stay on top off.
I think Broken Champion technically doesn't qualify as pornography by the strict definition of pornography (a work produced exclusively and explicitly for erotic stimulation). I mean obviously Lily was getting off to it but there's enough plausible deniability that she can get away with saying 'It's not porn'. It's pornographic, but not itself pornography.
Regarding the soulbinding thing, and the mating bond, it seems like that even goes back to her Family Guy fanfiction in a lesser way (Matt being Meg's guardian angel, which I'm sure has some kind of tethering property) and was even a plot point in Tales of the Val'kyr, according to the (now deleted) wiki, where Ascentia apparently had to link her soul to whoever the hell her wife is, I fucking forget, and 'burn' her soul in order to save her life, and that left her permanently crippled as one of the Val'kyr so she always had to have special treatment and of course was so brave and loving for sacrificing her incredible power (also I think she was second to Ryder in power level) in order to save her beloved.
As to the focus on rape: I'm pretty sure she has a rape fetish, and specifically I think she has a fetish for women being raped. She lives this out both in her stories where every villain is a rapist and in her lewd ask extravaganzas where she responds very positively to Anons sending her rape fantasies. Now that I think about it, I wonder how many Anons actually send these specific fantasies and how many are her 'getting the ball rolling', shall we say, because come to think of it they all sound very similar to one another.
There's also the fact that making the villain a rapist is THE laziest way to make sure the audience knows they're evil. A rapist villain can be portrayed in some powerful, terrifying ways, but it's so often just stapled on to villains, or else attributed to nameless evil forces who are menacing an (inevitably) female character, to the point that rape in fiction oftentimes prompts the audience to just check out of the conflict. Rape in real life is horrific, but in fiction it's treated as an accessory, both for the villains to be True Evil and for the survivors to be Sympathetic Victims.
While I'm sure this was definitely just feeling edgy when she said this, the RVI wiki screenshot also goes out of its way to mention that Bhaalspawn had experienced a breakup -- presumably a bad one if it was so important to mention it on the wiki -- and judging by her treatment of woman overall it's very likely that the 'women are awful manipulative creatures' struck a very powerful chord with Lily and is to this day how she views women. Deciding to go trans just gives her an excuse to hate women while being on a higher echelon of oppression and therefore allowed to be a misogynist without any reprisal.
Regarding Broken Champion as a whole... oh my god. It's just 75k words about how Aliana is so put upon and deserves so much happiness and everybody around her revolves their lives around making her happy and that's what defines them as good people. And everybody just loves Anevay sooooo muuuuuuch and Anevay's had such a haaaaaard liiiiife that she deserves for everybody else to take care of her and she never has to do anything to try and make things better.
It's the same as comic!Lily having everybody fawn over her when something goes wrong, or everybody fawning over Ascentia or Ryder because they've had such hard lives, or fawning over Aliana because of dead mom, or people telling Matt Ryder that he doesn't deserve what a hard life he's had. It's always about how the self-insert is such a victim and that simple nature of being a victim entitles the to everybody else's unconditional love and affection. I assume this is because Lily believes she had such a hard life and was such a victim of abuse (to the point that her horrible abusive family still invites her to the reunions and encourages her to spend time with them) and the fact that everybody she meets doesn't instantly put their life on hold to revolve around her is itself furthering that abuse.
She's just using all these stories to get vicarious validation. "Oh, I feel so bad for Anevay, I want to kill her evil mom!" "Oh, I feel so bad for Aliana, Luke deserves to die!" "Oh, Doctor Ponytail is so evil for wanting to hold Lily and G accountable for ruining an experiment that could have saved an entire species!"
Frankly it's pathetic.
While it's fairly obvious that Lily likely went trans as a shield to deflect criticism, I wonder if that's only part of the reason.
People, even those like Lily, are very rarely as straightforward as, well, as people like Lily like to make them out to be. Way back in the mid-2010's she claimed to have had a "revelation" of sorts which motivated her to drop her edgy, anti-SJW view points and I...partially believe that. I believe that, after numerous people calling him out and getting banned from multiple forms for his behavior, Jerry did start to think their maybe something wrong with his attitude. But instead of realizing that his issue was that he was rude, self-absorbed, jerk who lacked respect for anyone who didn't think almost exactly like he did, he blamed his issues on his political views instead.
Maybe it was a misunderstood epiphany, or maybe he was afraid of putting in effort to actually better himself and saw flipping his views on the political spectrum to be an easier way to self improvement. I don't know, but what I do know is changing your position on a social issue doesn't improve you as a person, it just makes you an asshole on a different side. Ironically a Family Guy episode points this out pretty well, there's an episode where Brian goes Republican for a bit and he's still every bit as insufferable as he was when he was a Democrat, it was just with a coat of red paint instead of blue.
Fun fact, AnimeCristy wasn't the first (recorded) artist Lily stole art from;
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Godspeed to whoever compiled that Drive man.
One more small thing, I find it almost incredible how Jerry failed to grasp the purpose of the "where's the fair use?" movement back in the day and continues to do so even now.
It was because billion dollar corporations were copyright striking video's that had, at most, 4 seconds of a movie, song, video game footage, ect. and screwing over Youtubers big and small. It was not to be used as a justification to defend yourself against small time artists who called you out for using your art work without permission or even bothering to give them credit.
Now, is Jerry technically in the right here? Yes. Is Jerry being a colossal, self righteous asshole about it? Also yes. I'll admit that the artist's demands to be paid just as much as the original commission is on the extreme side, but let's be honest here, this is probably the most harsh example of an artist they had to deal with. He's used this excuse about a dozen other times on artist who only wanted to be credited or asked for their work, which is considered the bare minimum one can do when using an artists work. Yeah, technically what they're doing isn't illegal, but neither is slamming a door in an old ladies face instead of holding it open for her, but people would still think you're an asshole for doing it.
