>I
>couldn't help but wonder if it was some sort of sly indictment of the
>genre, if the artist was trying to make the usual crop of people who
>would fork over money for what is, let's be honest here, a deeply
>misogynist genre of fan-product feel bad about what they'd done.

Someone with a stronger stomach than me and a sociology thesis to write could get more mileage out of this, but it seems like the nicer and sweeter the original property is, the darker the fandom decides to go with it. Take Kantai Collection for a recent example; in the game, you can scrap ships that aren't of any use in order to get more resources to build new ones, or refit a ship by consuming another ship in order to transfer some of Ship A's stats to Ship B. Fairly standard game mechanic, but there's a ton of fanart out there that goes into graphic detail of how this process works, and it generally looks like the deleted scenes from a Saw film.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."