Hi. The name's Azadritha Anathame, the local gremlin woman inside your walls. Sometimes I make art or talk about things I like. Mostly I just reblog stuff.
she/they, old enough to remember when keeping your age private on the Internet was considered the smart and correct thing to do.
“[They]Extinguish the human with work… why? Stealing the life itself from the human - I ask again, Why?! Our owner - I lost my life at Nefedov’s factory - our owner gifted one songstress a golden hygiene set, even a gold champer pot! In this chamber pot is my force, my life itself. This is for what it was needed - a person killed me with work to satiate his lover with my blood - he bought a golden chamber potty with my blood!”
it genuinely hurts my heart how hateful this place is especially towards the trans gals of color whom I've met and befriended, only to be pushed out, harassed, or deleted.
my friends and GIRLFRIEND feeling scared to be on here is fucking upsetting. when you're one of the most looked down upon members of society you deserve a safe place and not hostility at every corner. shit sucks, ILY trans gals. especially the ones that were gone with no outrage.
Earlier this year, Itch.io and Steam had to take down games due to pressure from companies like Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, and Stripe.
Mastercard, Visa, and other payment processors are still targeting material they deem obscene - whether or not it actually is.
We need to start calling again. Even if you don't like NSFW stuff or dislike porn - porn and nsfw is only the start of what they'll go after.
Among Mastercard's list of "high fraud risk" subjects in relation to Mastercard Threat Intelligence are the following:
Vtubing
Adult Content (which they define very loosely)
Tabletop Games
Video Games & their platforms
And likely more.
They're likely targeting political activism now in addition to this, and people who speak out against the companies. Notably now, Ana Valens is repeatedly having her payment processing accounts and platforms taken down or flagged as potential fraud - Buy Me A Coffee, Throne, Ko-Fi, Patreon - and in some cases, customer support from these platforms are citing information that hasn't been put on their platforms when explaining why they've targeted her accounts.
Completely SFW accounts of hers have been targeted, likely due to her speaking up about what the payment processors are doing and because of what she makes as a creative. She is at risk of debanking.
Spoke to a second source familiar with what’s going on with paypro censorship toward me. It seems I’ve been blacklisted among paypros as a c
This happening to her means that other creators - Vtubers, game devs of both video games and tabletop games, creatives, sex workers - are likely at risk of the same. For many, it's already happening to them.
Companies and corporations should not have the power to censor what people say and do, or where their money goes - political power like this should not lie in their hands.
We need to start calling the payment processors again and making noise. Contact people in your circles, talk to people, spread the word. Contact your representatives about censorship laws. Spend less money this holiday season.
This is not just about sex work or NSFW. This is about people's right to decide what they spend their money on, and in some cases, people's right to access their finances. It's about creative expression and whether or not what we make gets censored, about what we get to say online.
Below are some resources that include info on phone numbers to call, email addresses belonging to the offending companies, and how to call. Start making noise again. Focus on the fact that companies should not have this power over what people spend their money on, at all.
TELL VISA, MASTERCARD, STRIPE, and PayPal to STOP
#SaveSpeech
starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. Th
can you explain that post you rbed from tpwrtrmnky
gna assume this is genuine and . ur gonna have to be a lot more specific i will not lie to u i have not a damn clue what ur referring to lol. who is that and what post. u could be talking abt like. 1/200000 posts i will not find it and i dont know what to look for anyways
ok no response so its time for a lesson in callouts and hate campaign tactics.
This anon is an example of what we call a "whisper network": a web of people spreading rumors about someone they all collectively dislike, usually a trans woman. This here is very specifically building plausible deniability as " im just asking questions!" while still effectively spreading the Notion that the victim (tpwrtrmnky in this case) has done or said something problematic. The intended format was going to be "can you explain" -> i explain my interpretation -> they respond with their bad faith interpretation -> i call them out on their bullshit and they label me problematic too OR i agree/am neutral to them and spread their version of the story to my entire following. both are bad. Ive derailed them here by just. not knowing what theyre talking about. who is tpwrtrmnky? what post? I don't know these things and its not like they're being very specific, so how can I explain? which, speaking of,
"can you explain" is a neat way of getting (tricking) me into saying something - anything - they can twist as problematic, or otherwise giving them ammunition (in the form of out of context quotes) against their victim to say "well she believes in THIS PROBLEMATIC THING and heres our PROOF" using my words against the victim. and while yes, i am giving benefit of doubt to this anon in particular these are almost universally bad faith questions and you must never treat them as legitimate. again, there are two outcomes from this sort of interaction and both are bad, for me and for the victim.
If youve known me, youll see exactly what I've done here even with that benefit of the doubt to shield myself from obvious pitfalls - I don't know what post they are referring to, and with so many posts on my blog how can i know! In the meantime ive ensured no bad faith responses by disabling anons - theyre never quite brave enough to face me directly. If they were truly trying to understand then they will have no trouble facing me directly - if not, well, good riddance.
Further Reading:
A satirical guidebook on how best to drive the most vulnerable from your communities.
explaining posts rbed from tpwrtrmnky is left as an exercise for the reader.
the reader is advised that bad explanations, particularly those reliant on interpretation unsupported by the literal meaning of the words in the post, will be laughed at. possibly BY tpwrtrmnky.
And the millionaires aren't going anywhere, for the most part.
Excellent update on year 2 of this program:
Last May, we were very happy to report that the Millionaire Tax instituted in the state of Massachusetts was working out very well, not scaring off all of the rich people, and raising funds for necessary education and transportation initiatives. The state had raised $1.8 billion — $800 million more than they predicted — and none of the terrible things the naysayers had predicted happened at all.
But how are things going a year later? Even better! The tax has now generated $3 billion more than expected, for a total of $5.7 billion that has been spent on projects that are positively benefiting Massachusetts residents and “being used to bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit.”
In case you need a refresher, the tax is a 4 percent tax on anything people make over a million dollars.
This article has a great way of framing tax alarmists for the hypocrites they are. It’s woven neatly through the whole article, but this quote really sums it up:
Sure, people complain. Rich people are always going to complain about taxes. But they never flee the way they threaten to, largely because whether or not they like to admit it, they prefer to live in the kinds of areas where things are made nicer by the taxes they don’t want to pay.
Tax the rich. Most of them won’t notice and even more of them won’t care
“My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” by Susan Stryker // Frankenstein (2025) dir. Guillermo Del Toro
being black in any art community is such a strange feeling cause you’ll see just blatant racism being expressed in others art and you have to just casually ignore it, for your sake if anything, colorism being something that’s just fundamentally there in every artist and you deal with it cause it’s not worth it in the end to even think of it too hard let alone even mentioning it, it’s definitely something
Hello nonblack reader of this post, I think you ought to share this one so that you and your peers can actively remind yourselves 1) of how your Black peers feel when you tolerate antiblack racism in your art spaces for entertainment and 2) that we notice it, but don't believe it is secure around enough of you to bring it up 🙏🏾
How long before we start seeing cases like these for just being queer? Do we have to get to that stage for people to start to mobilize against this loudly?
We can't let the fight against internet censorship and puritan outrage against NSFW content be another controlled narrative by the right wing grifters.
Like, you drop the most inescapably popular and influential shooter of an entire generation, with a cast overflowing with some of the most instantly iconic characters we've ever seen, that captures a fanbase which is so eager to learn about any aspect of these characters that they start willfully lapping up character trailers and ARGs as though those are good forms of storytelling for games in order to get just the vaguest taste of what this world offers,
And then proceed to single-handedly fumble the bag so bad that the primary legacy the game can claim to have is using that promise of a story to bait-and-switch it's fans into buying an incomplete sequel that was rushed into production because you punished a Hearthstone player for being pro-democracy, being the final needle to pop the e-sports speculator bubble there by financially draining nearly every competitive gaming scene to the brink of bankruptcy (at best), and having indirectly lead to advancements in 3D animation because your game effectively has it's own category on pornhub. Oh, also, you alienated the director of the game so hard that he leaves the company and seemingly retires from the entire gaming industry.
Only a room full of the most cynical and dollar horny suits imaginable could fuck this up so bad. I'm not even mad at this point. Just saddened on behalf of everyone on the dev team who actually gave a shit and embarrassed on behalf of the lootbox blinded execs who didn't.
There is no fucking way I'm seeing people in the tags waxing nostalgic about how 'good' and 'consumer-friendly' Overwatch's loot boxes were, I didn't include how it normalized in-game gambling for children on the list of it's horrible, horrible legacies because I figured that just went without saying.
Sincerely the most evil and shameful consequence of Overwatch's tragic life and in a just world people would have gone to jail for it's implementation.
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