HeartsDmise

I'm an artist and designer who has wayy too many hobbies! 🖼️ 🎨ᝰ🖌️ It's nice to meet you .ᐟ (⁠人⁠ ⁠•͈⁠ᴗ⁠•͈⁠)💕

[randomhellbird]

Hello everyone! I have a friend whose sweet cat is currently in an emergency health situation. Any amount of donations or sharing her Gofundme would help a lot! Thank you! >< 🫶🏻💕

Donate to Urgent Care Needed for a Loyal Friend, organized by Emma Minix

My best friend, my emotional support animal, the reason I've made it through these pa… Emma Minix needs your support for Urgent Care Needed

[heartsdmise]

why

Why not? 👀

Also hmmm you look like a mighty familiar Acorn, don't I know you from somewhere?

[dervampireprince]

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: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.

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.): [phone]

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 [phone]

Visa (International): (call collect - it costs them $): [phone]

PayPal (US): 1-888-221-1161

PayPal (UK): 0800 358 7911 from landline, [phone] 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.

[wings-of-ink]

Be firm, annoying, and do it with grace. The more they are bombarded, the more they will cave. Boycotting really does change things. When they stop making money, they will start sweating. Creators and consumers of all types of content need to pay attention to this because it is another form of control under the guise of "protection." If you don't consume these types of content, just wait, they will come for the things you do like eventually.

[heartsdmise]

I purposely made her hair look like the red spider lilies on her clothing UwU✨💮🌹🥀

Btw mini rant: coding is f✨cking hard- especially as a newbie on Twine 😮‍💨 iykyk

[heartsdmise]

Colorful Worlds

I just wanted to play around with colors :3 ✨

[heartsdmise]

A Still Life

Got bored and decided to do some still life since it's been a really long time. I painted this with gouache in the paperbag sketchbook I bookbinded myself!

I don't know why the white paint on the vase is coming off as pink here, but it is what it is 🫠

I was honestly having a hard time getting myself to sit and continue my work even though it was frustrating me. I wanted to stop so badly but I kept going because I want to build my tolerance and patience for art again. I realized my art block is most likely stemming from having no goals anymore and also a lack of patience and tolerance for things that frustrated/ stressed me out. Considering I've had so much stress in my life, it's no wonder I couldn't tolerate more! Hopefully this is a slow and gentle transition into doing art and loving art again ♥️

[heartsdmise]

Vive La Résistance

I always admired dandelions for their persistence to grow no matter where they are. Even though they're seen as weeds by people around me, all I see is a beautiful flower full of wishes. I want to be more like a dandelion-- pushing through despite hardship and darkness in the world. 🌻🌼🌾🌿

This is just a little doodle I made inside of the paper bag sketchbook I bookbinded myself! I want to fill it with art that is outside of my usual kind. 🎨🖌️📖

[heartsdmise]

Ginkgo

I painted these, cut them out, and pasted them in my sketchbook wayyy back after this Arcane episode was out. I wanted to do something amazing with the background in my sketchbook but could never figure what, so I didn't post it until now 😅 I just gave up so here it is!

These are the ginkgo leaves from Arcane that Ekko was holding! I know the show only had green ones but I wanted to make a yellow version too! 🌱🍃 I also wanted it to look like it was placed inside of a book for safekeeping.

[heartsdmise]

Visiting where I've been and where I am now through my pencil 🧳💕

My old drawing (pencil sketch) on the bottom right is from when I was in elementary school! It's interesting to see how far I've come!

[heartsdmise]

Porter Robinson's Musician is one of the songs that hypes me up to actually make art. It felt fitting to do something for the song (⁠~⁠‾⁠▿⁠‾⁠)⁠~♪ 🎶 🎧 📀 💿

[vihyura]

truly

[snowflakeb0ttles]

[sagethegremlin]

[heartsdmise]

Just A Girl & Her Dog

My own version of the pastel colored bank in Wrocław, Poland! I made it into a house instead with a smol girl and her dog. 🐕👩💕

Side Note: The building isnt uneven, the paper on my sketchbook is hella crinkled cuz of the watercolor so it looks warped. I couldnt fix it for the beauty shots 🫠

[heartsdmise]

Flowers 🌸🌻🪻💐🌷🐰🐇

[heartsdmise]

I'm too tired of drawing the same things right now. Cant get myself to actually draw properly so, I'm gonna do art differently for a bit. I'll be mixing more cutouts with my drawings. Yes I will still be drawing, but I will be adding a new flavor to it that actually gives me some life.

[sucharide]

i hope im not just a mutual to you. i hope i'm also someone you want to beat to death with halloween themed cat paws

[heartsdmise]

Berry drawing (from photo reference). I wanted to practice using my Posca markers. Unfortunately I don't have many colors so I couldn't exactly blend and make things look nicer so I used my multicolored color pencil instead :3

[heartsdmise]

Mermaid drawing 🐬🧜‍♀️🪼✨💕 inspired by Pinterest fashion :3

This drawing was just something I wanted to do to relax/ have fun, so it was unplanned and with mostly permanent multicolored color pencils so erasing and proper anatomy wasn't in the cards for me. That being said though, I love how this turned out 🥺💕