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things I would do if you're a nsfw/kink creative now because I've been eerily prescient about every single wave:

a) get a personal site with your own domain you own. now. not a carrd or third party squarespace. not next week. now. get it online with ugly-ass html but get your links there.

b) if you have the money: join one or multiple of eff.org / cbldf.org / freespeechcoalition.com

partly because they're actively fighting this, partly because they have members-only Lawyers You Might Need. Hint. Hint. Canary.

c) Write Down Those Lawyer Contact Numbers in meatspace. phone number of a real human being especially on paper, On You.

I have been in contact with lawyers for a few months now as my doujin circle knows. this should be telling you Many Things.

d) www.ecrater.com is where i'm going to be tentatively testing a shop because i like the fact you can *not* have payment processes and order digital/physical products via purely mail order.

(... be prepared for this to fall through too in the next 1-6 months.)

e) friends and followers of nsfw artists who earn most of their income through it: now's the time to support them. they're going to need the grace and financial flexibility especially mental health wise. domain/shop transfer/refund/therapy bills ain't free.

check in on them, and often.

f) get a VPN, use it daily to acclimatize, have them on your hard drive, several VPN's preferable. this is for the age verification laws coming. Start reading up on secure, privacy-focused infrastructure (prioritize email > website > shop in that order).

eff.org has a *ton* of resources.

g) prepare for discord and tumblr to be hit in the next wave. have alternatives *and actively start using them* if they're mission critical platforms for you.

I've played with matrix though I quite fancy IRC. if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I say these things not to fearmonger but to give yourself the maximum amount of time to prepare. the pendulum *will* swing back. it did with the 80's moral panic. it will for this too.

you just have to outlast the bastards.

kradeelav

Again, I know it's been extremely rough on this corner of the internet, but please consider taking at least one or two concrete actions a day to protect yourself.

Instead of my previous "I'll do some of these in six months" timeframe, I'm now approaching these with a "with a budget of XUSD, inside of two weeks, with a threat model of Y" urgent mentality.

Take that as you will.

pydiyudie

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#gods #zenos #py ur amazing

treskolii

Come on founder/king of Athens, aren’t u gonna slay the Bull of Minos or not?

raimagnolia

Huh...

hammerheadshart

the side angle is important

raimagnolia

I know y'all are probably sick of this post but... It really is the gift that keeps on givin this Christmas

captain-snark

#I mean from the side you can even realize that the guy's not wearing any bottoms at all..

the minotaur, however, is wearing one hell of a bottom

fallnangelcreations

Male/Male Couples & Embracing Poses Collection

Part 2 of 3

A 112 page book/CD rom with male/male poses, from many different angles, for artist drawing references.

Part 1

Part 3

iwilleatyourenglish

hey um

who did this

abp0rns

Your art is inspiring. Could you teach us to draw like head angles or side profile?

Of course!

About head angles - in my opinion it has a lot to do with spatial reasoning, as in, "the ability to think about and manipulate objects in three dimensions" (source), like rotating, stretching, or compressing the object in your mind. If you want to learn more about this and even quiz yourself on your spatial reasoning skills for fun, you can do so on this website. It's a fun test in my opinion!

As that relates to head angles, this is normally how I would picture the the head in its most reduced form - a sphere, and how it can be manipulated:

(In the bottom sketches, I included a nose-like shape to illustrate the way any feature on the sphere would move.)

As you can see, there's a horizontal axis (in red) and a vertical axis (in blue). In reality, it can be moved in every direction that you can think of.

Here are two examples to portray how the axes might work in the sketching process:

You can note that there's a general flowing direction that features like the eyes, brows, lips, and hairline follow, while a feature like the nose either extends (when the head is tilted downward) or compresses (when the head is tilted upwards).

When I draw heads, I always start with these axes markers, like so:

And from there, I sketch the rest:

As far as drawing features and where they are relative to one another in various angles, I think good practice would be finding references and sketching them. There are many, many different types of faces and features that you can make your own observations about. This is just a general guide I guess :)

I hope this was helpful and I'm happy that you've been inspired!

one day

i’ll get the lewdle energy back

#21monkchat

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meme filled 👍

individual meme images up on misskey and poipiku lol

#21monk #21monkart

meme done UωU on my misskey -> https://misskey.io/notes/9i7luxdoon

Misskey.io は、Misskey HQが運営する地球で生まれた分散マイクロブログSNSです。Fediverse（様々なSNSで構成される宇宙）の中に存在するため、他のSNSと相互に繋がっています。 <br> 暫し都会の喧騒から離れて、新しいインターネットにダイブしてみませ

you’ll have to follow again sorry i’m tired of tumblr hiding my stuff ww or follow twitter while it still alive

#21monk #21monkart #meme

omg is this like poipiku but twt like??

— ITS LITERALLY PAWOO WHICH IS MASTODON

so THERES SO MANY PPL AND YOU CAN CROSS FOLLOW?!!

like ffxiv data centers???

i’m still figuring it out lol

#21monkchat #GOOD BYE TUMBLR AND ITS WEIRD NSFW RULE #i’ll have twitter (until it dies) and misskey for 21monk

https://misskey.io/@21monk

ITS HERE AND I HOPE AND PRAY I DID THE “VISIBLE ONLY TO FOLLOWERS” PART RIGHT LMAO

i also found my old pawoo

of which i didn’t set up right lol

anyways

#21monk #21monkart

erkhyan

On how a video game about fucking a bear interrupted furry discourse

People don’t realize the absolute comedy that just went through Furry social media.

See, feral smut (i.e. smut of four-legged characters who otherwise satisfy the Harkness test) has always been a contentious subject in the furry fandom, due to how easily it leads to unwarranted real-life accusations of zoophilia. It’s an annoying bit of discourse that has been rearing its head every other year since the modern fandom began four decades ago.

Which, you know, pretty rich, coming from the fandom where a pretty large percentage readily admit to having had some form of sexual awakening over the TLK and MLP:FiM franchises.

And anyway, that discourse was exactly what was going on last week. People getting harassed on Twitter, as an extension of the whole “groomer” moral panic. A lot of fandom relative newcomers parroting arguments right out of the Burned Furs movement (a late 1990s/early 2000s movement dedicated to “purifying” the furry fandom from “perversion” and “degeneracy”).

And then, just as the discourse was at its most heated, Baldur’s Gate 3 entered the chat.

Suddenly, everyone was talking about the game that will let you fuck a bear. Yes, a bear, as in Ursus arctos. A Druid shapeshifted into a bear, to be fair (again: the Harkness test), but a bear nonetheless.

And mainstream media erupted with reports that the game’s sales skyrocketed based on that scene alone.

And the discourse suddenly screeched to a hilariously embarrassed halt.

10/10 comedic timing, no notes.