I'm deleting this blog soon, due to AI and shadowbanning forcing my hand. This is where you can find me.
I am mostly on Bluesky these days. It's like twitter but without algorithms. I no longer use my twitter except to cross post sporadically.
I have a main Patreon and a NSFW Patreon. I am going to post a lot more on patreon (free posts, even!) as a space for the various essays I used to post here.
I am on Instagram. I don't use it a lot and rarely check my messages, but if you're looking to follow an account that isn't going to flood your dash, I'm your guy.
Same goes for my Facebook account. I dunno, maybe I'll start using that more? I hate what the internet has become.
My main website is Rosalarian.com. Do people still visit websites? It feels like I'm spending $400/year on this thing for no good reason except that I don't have time to rebuild a cheaper/free website to replace it.
30,000 followers on here, and I know it's unlikely that even 10% will follow me elsewhere. That's not a slight on my followers, that's just the way it is. A good number of them won't see this before I delete my blog. Plenty of you aren't on the social networks I'm on. A lot of smart people will see the decline of several major social media sites as a sign to get off social media entirely, and I envy you.
Social media, tumblr in particular, was once a beautiful thing. It was connecting people, building community, sharing information and art in ways we never could before. It hasn't been that way for a long, long time. I'm so fucking sad to lose this tumblr. It was really special for a while, and a big part of my life in my 20s.
FOSTA/SESTA passing was a big nail in the coffin for my time on the internet. A lot of websites "complied in advance" with the fascist laws and banned adult content. KOSA could push this even further, and when paired with laws that seek to label "existing while trans" as inherently "adult," this trans artist might soon be pushed off the internet entirely. But it's not just the laws. Companies with big near-monopolies like Apple and VISA have made their own internal rules banning some or all adult content. Not all of my work is smut. But that doesn't matter. One drop of smut is all it takes to "contaminate" my entire career. But I don't regret making smut. I refuse to think of it as a bad, career-killing idea. Smut isn't killing my career. Puritans are. I will not take the blame for what they are doing.
And then there's the AI thing. To have my work taken from me without my consent and fed into a machine that seeks to put me out of a job, all while feeding the audience a hollow, inferior facsimile of "art," it makes me angrier than just about anything. It's a resource-wasting plagiarism machine, and I want no part of it.
Well, I should go attend to rebuilding something that resembles an internet presence. Feel free to go through the archives (if tumblr even lets you) and save any of my comics or art that you like. I'm trying to make sure everything is on my website, too.
In true tumblr fashion, I will end this with a Doctor Who reaction gif.
