[90s-kid-sad-adult]

lie to me

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/

[kradeelav]

the first 30 panels of Gaze an Eagle Blind has been shared (for free!) on @littlefoolery's ko-fi! ~

[Gaze an Eagle Blind ] - Opening Scene Preview

Little Foolery published a post on Ko-fi

this past year, I've been lucky enough to be a part of the supportive team doing some of the BG designs (art directed by @artofchira)! Also a huge, huge personal treat getting to see more of @moonsheen's writing ~

There's easily 400+ panels actively in the wip stage or finished so there's plenty to look forward to as well. :)

[amuseoffyre]

One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006

[kradeelav]

i know things are hella grim in the nsfw/kink art circles especially in the last year --

but I'm hearing there's a NSFW-friendly ko-fi alternative built on atproto that's actively in the works, and being vetted by lawyers right now. as torrent-princess (OP) says, you should be able to swap out payment processors while keeping your account intact. this matters since even if stripe removes support, you'll still have a shop and all of your links intact. (ATproto is an infrastructure that bsky is built on, but is far bigger than bsky with far more opportunities.)

additionally, the Free Speech Coalition is working on a credit union specifically for adult work (including kink art) - here's the link so you can add your interest & support. Since this will be built by sex workers, there'll be far less risk of being debanked for spurious and puritanical reasons.

on a domain TLD level, there's an initiative here for a .furry domain built from the ground up by seasoned furries; it's unclear whether they'll support NSFW, but it's yet another promising turn of events for a group that's been similarly affected by censorship.

there are friends and allies out there helping to build a working parallel infrastructure. keep being vocal, keep supporting these initiatives when it's possible, and keep supporting your nsfw/kink artists. ♥

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month!!! 🌈💕🌼✨

[evan-collins90]

Elvira's 'cave' room (1990s)

"I call this room "the cave." Pretty creative, bub? It's the one room in my house where I can bang out and really be me. It's dark, creepy and the waterfall outside the window gives it that damp, musty feeling I crave. And talk about impressing your friends... just break out the ol' shackles and it's a party!" - Elvira

Scanned from the book, Havens: Celebrities' Favorite Rooms by Michael McCreary (1995)

[lychgate]

Has anyone seen the giraffe lamp at ikea

[lychgate]

Hes allowed on the table

[lychgate]

Were watching sumo together

[lychgate]

Here imea giraffe lamp, it's your turn on the donkey kong

[lychgate]

And when you pick him up off your squishy carpet:

[celesse]

Classy, not trashy 🌹✨

[smbc-comics]

You exist in a perpetual state of just about to get to Disney World.

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[risingoflights]

i bought a lot of classics as a teen because i wanted to seem smart. i bounced off most of them because i was not, in fact, smart. and these days i'm arguably stupider, but this year i have at least been going back to actually going through these books at last.

and what strikes me is that, content and characterisation aside, a lot of these stories and books have structures that are alien to me. i'm used to stories having certain features which classifies them as stories, and some of these classics have been amusingly deviant from my expectations.

the best way i can think of to describe them is to compare the structure of a story to that of a suburban house. bear with me here, see if the analogy sticks-

currently reading sherlock holmes stories. delightful houses. solid. they may be a bit plain but all the rooms are present and functional and easy to navigate. loving these houses.

just finished edgar allen poe stories. sooome of these are houses as i know them, with the usual rooms. some of these houses are tents. some of them are elaborately house-like on the outside but consist only of a single beautifully decorated corridor from the front door straight to the back. some of these houses appear gorgeous from the front and then you open the door to realise nobody's actually built the rest of the house

moby dick was an effort. i struggled. this is by all accounts a house you could live in but it, for some reason, also has fifty closets. there's a bed and bath sure but just, at least 80% of this house is closets. frankly especially bewildering for someone who was always told about the single stunning living room of this house.

phantom of the opera was delightful. beautiful gothic mansion on the outside, as promised, with an interior to match... but the wallpaper consists of brightly coloured polka-dots.

and, special mention to les mis, which is actually one of my favourite and most re-read books. this is a mighty house with solid foundations. but besides the usual rooms there are a dozen others that seem only precariously attached and just borderline functional. does this house really need an observatory or a crematorium room, for example?

[unsoundedcomic]

Is it ever a struggle to write the story you want to write vs. a story that will appeal to a wider audience? I’ve been trying to do some writing of my own and been hung up on that at times, and I imagine it’s worse if your works are also your source of income.

Yeah, it's tough, especially in a serialized medium where every single page is getting immediate and very loud responses. You can start second-guessing everything you do, wondering if you should drop unpopular characters or play up the ones that are getting a better reaction.

But don't. Cut that shit out. Because the audience is great and necessary but they're not the one that has to make the work. You MUST follow your OWN instinct and your OWN preferences because YOU are the most important person in the audience. YOU are the one that has to stay engaged with the work for it to advance. If you ignore yourself in favour of your reader, you're just going to faceplant.

I know there are writers and artists out there who are super plugged in to popular tastes and can follow them while still staying engaged - often because they have the same taste themselves. But if that ain't you, you just have to follow your own predilections and hope that a likeminded audience will come. This is definitely hard mode, but it also makes you valuable to that particular audience. Because you'll be less common. They'll find you and hang on 'cause no one else is selling what you got.

But yeah, of course, don't quit your day job :)

[celesse]

Just a reminder I have a cute shop full of cute stuff! Sales have been rough this year so shares are appreciated 🙏💕

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[smbc-comics]

Kicking myself for not teeing this up as a major Kickstarter.

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On the topic of Kickstarters - our project for Parenting - An SMBC Collection is in it's last week!

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[ludux]

Incredible. Amazing. 10/10.

[flutterissa]

So I replayed NiGHTs: Journey of Dreams just recently! It's one of my favorite games: gentle vibes, exploring fantastic dream worlds, and something about it is just kind of sincere. So, here's Sunny in full NiGHTs cosplay. :3

[theaceofwords]

Why Tumblr Has Rolled Out ID Verification

UK legislation: Online Safety Act 2023

Brazil legislation: Digital Statute For Children And Adolescents

Apple App Store Age Verification

These are not tumblr specific policies. Tumblr is implementing age verification in response to legislative moves that were made months ago.

Tumblr is a failing social media site that has escaped death multiple times already; they do not have the social cachet to defy state regulatory agencies. We know they won't say no to Apple, either--the porn ban on tumblr was in response to Apple's crackdown on explicit content.

If you did not know this was happening, you were behind the curve. That is fine. You're caught up now. The next step is to link up with people in your country who are working to preserve privacy, to roll back these laws where they exist, and to prevent their passage where they do not. In the US the organization you want is Stop KOSA--in the EU you can start with Fight Chat Control.

Repealing ID verification and blocking chat control will help everyone, especially the most vulnerable. We can push this back, but we cannot get it done through the Feedback form. We have to get it done at the legislative level and lock it down so it cannot be forced upon us. I see lots of anger out there. Good. Put it to use.

[melyzard]

Hey, if you're in the USA, that Stop KOSA link helps you send a letter/email to your rep in like, 5 minutes. You can change the auto generated letter (I did, a little, to make it more personal) but you can just hit Send as is.

[kradeelav]

it's not that i don't believe in cringe, or cringe as a concept, or cringe playing a nuanced part of society. (saying as somebody who posts selfship fetish art on main happily lol. like..... i am intimately familiar with the concept and can wink at it.)

but that i believe the internet is the one place that sincere cringe should exist.

now, maybe it's not the internet specifically. maybe it's in lowbrow art more generalized. it's always existed in some form.

but the important thing bein' that there remains at least one place where you can play in the mud freely and there is mud to be thrown around.

throw lil' mudballs at each other, you know. get familiar with the concept of dirtyin' up yourself and being the fool and finding whimsy and maybe, just maybe, finding a little bit of holiness in the filth as much as it is a hot mess and will never be respected.

what measure is sincerity if you can't find power in it when it's at its most naked and filthy in its bed?

is it sincerity if you can only feel it when it's properly cleaned up and simpered to and "respected" a very specific way by others and Bigly Numbers or a very specific slice of moralistic counterculture to feel all superiorily snobby-like over somebody else's cringe?

or is it sincerity when you can tenderly love the cringe for what it is, and for what it does to you and all of your most deepest feelings?