how I feel to be just posting about infamous for like the nth time this week

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how I feel to be just posting about infamous for like the nth time this week
he eats dirt
Requested: Yes
Pairing(s): So'lek x Na'vi Male Reader
Content(s): Na'vi Reader, Bottom!Male reader, Smut/Suggestive, p in a, fingering, hand/blow job, smidge of plot
[A/n]— I'm so rusty with male reader smut, and this is my first time writing for a bottom male reader, so I hope it was okay 🥹
It was almost devastating, really, having to watch So'lek trek around, your gaze lingering along the planes of his thick thighs, taking note of how his tail barely swayed. How the bands of his loincloth sit just so perfectly around his hips, absolutely devastating.
The resistance has been so busy lately, keeping you and everyone else out and about. You were tired— more than, really. It wasn't an easy job helping out the other clans, and even then you took it upon yourself to strike down any RDA you came across.
Why'd you have to be such a good helper? Because now you're desperately missing your mate.
It had been far too long since you've had a night with him— just in general, even. You and your ikran took to the skies too often, having to find other places to stay on those cold nights. Especially when the fly back home would exhaust your bonded way too much, you had to think of her too, even though she knew of your longing.
affirmations: you are not real, you don’t have feelings, you don’t want anything, this will be over soon
The unable to opt out thing is what makes this whole situation feel so Bizzaro world to me. I've had to install extensions to block AI, changed my word processor to get rid of AI, uninstalled AI that randomly appeared on my phone (twice!), and yet I'm still constantly batting away bots, begging me for prompts. Why? If your product is so brilliant and inevitable why is it non-negotiable?
It's like going to the market, deciding not to buy tomatoes, and the tomato seller following you around for years trying desperately to change your mind: slipping tomatoes into your food, throwing them at you in the street, sneaking them into your bed while you sleep.
It's weird.
And it's also depressing, because it's not tomatoes, it's a machine that is nuking our environment to wordily explain one maybe right thing, one definitely wrong thing, and one thing which is just the first thing again, but with synonyms.
Steam, Itch.io and the banning of explicit and LGBT+ Content. What can we do?
[All images in this post have alt/id text if you need it or want to copy paste anything]
With no warning, Itch.io, a site where many host their indie games, comics, books and more, has started purging and shadowbanning explicit and LGBT+ works. Creators got no warning. And if they were still owed payouts from these works, Itch.io is saying they won't give them their money as they 'broke the rules'. Rules that were only just set in place, with no warning, and therefore no way for creators to try and draw out their money or delete these 'offending' works before they got banned under the new rules.
So Itch.io has been the most recent to fall to the demands of a group that's been contacting Visa and Mastercard and convincing them to threaten sites/businesses with 'stop selling what we consider to be explicit content on your sites of we'll stop allowing your site to have transactions with Visa and Mastercard'. Steam folded, and now Itchio has too. And a reminder earlier this year Gumroad also stopped allowing explicit content, further back than that Patreon banned some kinks and fetishes even if it's depicted in fiction not real life, and I don't have to explain to you guys the great Tumblr explicit content ban of 2018.
And as always remember this doesn't stop with sexually explicit work as LGBT+ stories and people are often labelled as explicit and already we're seeing works being taken off Itch.io that are about LGBT+ and especially trans stories. Other non-sexually explicit works I've seen already getting shadowbanned, delisted or deleted are SFW games featuring furries/anthros, SFW dress up games (because when you take the clothes the model is nude), and the aforementioned SFW games that include LGBT+ characters and stories.
I'm compiling here information I've seen around various social medias, mostly Bluesky, because I haven't seen all these things shared over here.
I don't personally have explicit content on itch, but I had been considering one day selling things on there and I do currently have explicit content on my Patreon, my main source of income, and am terrified that Patreon is going to fold next (if anyone knows alterative for hosting audio content behind a paid subscription service please let me know so I can start maybe making a back-up in case the worst happens). Because for me personally if Patreon goes next, it's not like I can go out and easily get another job. Not only because in general finding and getting a job is difficult enough, but I'm autistic and have chronic pain and have been constantly getting sick or new pains over the last few years and don't feel safe being trans in the UK right now and all of that combined rules me out of a lot of jobs and makes me feel unsafe to apply to any. I'm so grateful I've been able to make a community around my work, but if Patreon caves next and I just leave my SFW posts on Patreon... 10% of my Patreons are signed up to the SFW tier, 90% are signed up to the explicit tier... I know if Patreon caves I will go from someone living comfortably who's searching to move out of my parents so I can live in a safer environment to someone who can no longer even afford the rent I pay to my parents. I'll try and get an alterative found and set up in case that happens and I can only hope you guys will follow me to whatever other site I have to set up... but it feels unlikely that people will get a whole new account on a whole new payment provider just to support me on a website they might never have heard of...
But what can we do right now?
A petition you can sign (international but you do have to give your name, email, and postal/zip code):
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu
Get calling:
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
MasterCard (UK): 0800 964 767
Mastercard (International.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 / 1-800-VISA-911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
Visa (UK) : 0800 891 725 or use their international call collect +1 303 967 1096
Visa (International): (call collect - it costs them $): +1-303-967-1096
PayPal (US): 1-888-221-1161
PayPal (UK): 0800 358 7911 from landline, +44 203 901 7000 mobile
PayPal (International): 1-402-935-2050
(numbers gathered from these posts X X X )
Don't know what to say on the phone? Here's a script written by timidtanuki:
Creators have had their work removed off Itch.io with no warning and since it's been removed for 'breaking the rules' (rules that were suddenly in place with no warning) they aren't entitled to get their payouts. Just like other sites such as Youtube and Twitch and Etsy, Itch.io hold onto money from their users in a wallet and then give them payouts. So there is money creators have made, are owed, that Itch.io is not giving to them.
People are recommending that if you still have works on Itch.io to turn down the revenue sharing to 0% so that Itch.io no longer takes a cut or your money if you no longer want to support Itchi.io finically but don't want to remove your works from their platform. X
Other Bluesky posts and calls to action I've seen:
radiantg.bsky.social is asking for anyone on Itch.io who got their game deindexed, removed , or payouts turned off to reach out to them (espeically if you make explicit and/or LGBT+ games) for a piece of journalism about what is happening.
sleepyhard.bsky.social is making a threat of all the games that Itch.io has censored/removed from their site search function. Obviously be aware this will include 18+ only games, games with sexual content and other dark or heavy themes.
thetransfemininereview.com wants you to reach out to them if you're a trans creator on Itch.io who is being affected by this so they can make an accurate report. they say 'authors' in their post and I'm unsure if they also want game devs to reach out.
dropdownbear.bsky.com wants you to reach out if you have purchased things on Itch.io that you can now no longer access because of this ban. they can include them in a report being filed with the Australian Consumer Commission as this may be a violation of Australian Consumer rights. If you are Australian you can no longer access things you purchased of Itch.io you can report directly with this guide.
It's a scary time for adult creators and sex workers. It's a scary time to be trans. Support creators. And if anyone knows of any alternate payment providers that allow explicit work, and/or alternate websites to Itch (and in case things get worse, also give me Patreon alternates please) where people can host, sell and/or offer paid subscriptions to writing, images, videos, audios, games and more please leave them in the replies. And please help share this post, the posts I'm linking too, and any other resources you can find.
Minors DNI. Ageless blogs DNI. I want resources and help but I don't reply to this post or follow this blog if you're under 18, this is an explicit blog and not for anyone under 18.
Every time someone draws Henry of Skalitz as a twink an angel loses its wings and global warming goes up by one degree
how busy are you guys that you can't spend a few days sorting beetles?
More proof that veganism is the most first world privileged of privileged first world behaviors.
Wait is everyone glossing over that the vegan suggested that species of animals would die out if they achieved their goals and everyone else was just like yeah that's fine but how would you even do that effectively.
Drive them to extinction...for their own benefit is the most insane thought anyone on the face of the earth has ever had
I don’t think many people know this but this is the end goal of many Animal Rights Groups such as PETA and even Humane World for Animals (previously the Humane Society of the United States). They sincerely believe that animals would be better off having absolutely no contact whatsoever with humans. Even if it means them dying or going extinct. That’s why euthanasia rates are so high in PETA shelters and why they kidnap pets off porches.
It’s why anti-zoo sentiment is so prevalent now. Animal Rights Activists are also against conservation because it means being in contact with animals. No banding, no tagging, no counting wild populations, and especially no breeding, keeping, or educating about endangered animals in human care. Rescue and rehab as well. If a one-eyed owl can only survive in captivity, it’s better off dead. If an animal has to spend a month in rehab before it can be released into the wild, they should have just left it to die instead.
Obviously not all vegans are like this! But this is the end goal of many of the more militant groups. And they start you out small. They release seemingly well-intentioned propaganda films like Blackfish, filled with good points supported by half-truths and some outright lies, they get you thinking “you’re right, at least those animals would die in the wild rather than live another second in a cage”, and eventually you’re thinking you shouldn’t have any pets and you’re cutting open zoo cages.
Animal welfare is super important, obviously. Animal rights involve a lot of anthropomorphism and assuming that animals all want the same things that you as a human would want. That keeping an animal safe, well-fed, enriched, healthy, and happy is the same as slavery or jail, because if you’re receiving any sort of benefit from it, even just happiness, you’re using them and thus, they are suffering.
I’ve literally had vegans tell me that they can’t wait to live on Mars where they’ll never have to see another animal again, and they can smile knowing that all the animals on Earth are safe because humans have left them behind. It’s a cult based on moral purity.
Hungarian swords, 14th century, at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul. The middle sword is 8ft long
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Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract. And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.
So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.
I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio. Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.
The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons. We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”
interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them.
…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit
this puppy currently being fostered by a rescue i follow makes me feel like. like. i don’t know. she’s a bug
her name is Primrose. jesus christ man
i cant fucking do this
time to get a delicious tea drink from my favorite crone, boba yaga
then I will go to an exercise class led by my other favorite crone, baba yoga
if you see me bleeding out with a vampire on top of me MIND YOUR BUSINESS!!!!! i’m exactly where i want to be
SO WHAT IF YOU CAN SEE
THE DARKEST SIDE OF ME
Home decor store clerk: sadly the vintage style oval wicker and glass coffee table is display only and is currently not for sale.
Me: understandable. Well I think that’ll be all for me this evening. I have a very important meeting to get to thank you.